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Exigent vs Importunate - What's the difference?

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Exigent is a related term of importunate.


As adjectives the difference between exigent and importunate

is that exigent is urgent; needing immediate action while importunate is of a demand: persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.

As a noun exigent

is (archaic) extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.

As a verb importunate is

(rare) to importune, or to obtain by importunity.

exigent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Urgent; needing immediate action.
  • * 2003 , , U.S. Department of Defence
    • Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.
  • Demanding; needing great effort.

    • Related terms

    * exigence * exigency * exigently

    Derived terms

    * allocatur exigent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency
  • * 1591 ,
    • These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, \ Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent ;
  • * 1611 ,
    • Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome, [Cicero 5° de finibus.] there was one or other that called for an interpreter: so lest the Church be driven to the like exigent , it is necessary to have translations in a readiness.
  • (obsolete, UK, legal) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
    • (Abbott)

    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.
    • Related terms
    * 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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