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Animated vs Importunate - What's the difference?

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Animated is a related term of importunate.


As adjectives the difference between animated and importunate

is that animated is endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous while importunate is of a demand: persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.

As verbs the difference between animated and importunate

is that animated is (animate) while importunate is (rare) to importune, or to obtain by importunity.

animated

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Endowed with life; full of life or spirit; indicating animation; lively; vigorous.
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    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again;

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    Verb

    (head)
  • (animate)

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    importunate

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a demand: persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.
  • Of a person: given to importunate demands, greedily or thoughtlessly demanding.
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    * importune

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Verb

    (importunat)
  • (rare) To importune, or to obtain by importunity.
  • * 1581 June 23, Thomas Churchyard, letter to Sir Christopher Hatton, in Sir Harris Nicolas (editor), Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, K.G. , Richard Bentley (publisher, 1847), page 173:
    • All which notwithstanding, I obtained licence at length to make my supplication to the noble Parliament house; but I could find no messengers till Sir John Seton went, whom I importunated daily to obtain me favor for my return home again.
  • * 1847 December 18, N. Roussel, “Spiritual Destitution of Paris.—Appeal to British Christians”, in Evangelical Christendom: Its State and Prospects , Volume II (1848), Partridge and Oakey, page 43:
    • Is my work ended? The fear of importunating my friends answers, “Yes.”
  • * 1910 July, David Leslie Brown, “The Need of To-day”, in , Volume 25, Southern Pacific Company, reverse of frontispiece:
    • It is the concrete that impresses, that importunates until it influences—in writing as in everything else.

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