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importunitas

importunitas · f

unsuitableness

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Where it lives

Pro Rege Deiotaro 1 · 2.56/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
De Fuga in Persecutione 1 · 1.88/10k
De Senectute 1 · 1.21/10k
Pro P. Sulla 1 · 1.07/10k
Laelius De Amicitia 1 · 1.07/10k
De Carne Christi 1 · 1.05/10k
Andria 1 · 1.02/10k
Pro A. Cluentio 2 · 0.96/10k
In L. Calpurnium Pisonem 1 · 0.92/10k
Rudens 1 · 0.84/10k
De Bello Africo 1 · 0.77/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

importūnĭtas — Lewis & Short

importūnĭtas (inp-), ātis, f.importunus.

I In gen., unsuitableness, unfitness (perh. only ante- and post - class., and very rare): importunitatem spectate aniculae, Ter. And. 1, 4, 4: loci, dangerousness, Gell. 3, 7, 5.—

II In partic., of character, unmannerliness, incivility, impoliteness, rudeness, insolence (class.; esp. freq. in Cic.): importunitas et inhumanitas omni aetate molesta est, Cic. de Sen. 3, 7: vide inter importunitatem tuam senatusque bonitatem quid intersit, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 16, § 42: tanta importunitas tantaque injuria Facta in nos est modo hic intus ab nostro ero, Plaut. Rud. 3, 3, 6: importunitas et superbia Tarquinii, Cic. Rep. 1, 40; so, with superbia, id. Lael. 15, 54: homo incredibili importunitate atque audacia, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 30, § 74: ex tuo scelere, importunitate, etc., id. ib. 2, 3, 54, § 126: matris, id. Clu. 69, 195: animi, id. ib. 61, 170: animal ex omnium scelerum importunitate et omnium flagitiorum impunitate concretum, id. Pis. 9, 21; id. Sull. 27, 75: illis, quantum importunitatis habent, parum est impune male fecisse, Sall. J. 31, 22.

In the wild

importunitas Cicero, De Senectute 7
importunitate Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.126
importunitatis Sallust, Jugurtha 31.p4
importunitatem Tertullian, De Carne Christi 7
importunitatis Pseudo-Caesar, De Bello Africo 87
importunitas Cicero, Pro P. Sulla 75

6 of 23 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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