Word Meanings - FLAGITATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Importunity; urgent demand. Carlyle.

DEMANDRESS
A woman who demands.
URGENT
Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send
DEMAND
To call into court; to summon. Burrill. (more info) L. demandare to give in charge, intrust; de- + mandare to commit to 1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for
DEMANDER
One who demands.
DEMANDANT
One who demands; the plaintiff in a real action; any plaintiff.
URGENTLY
In an urgent manner.
IMPORTUNITY
The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application; troublesome pertinacity. O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton.
DEMANDABLE
That may be demanded or claimed. "All sums demandable." Bacon.
REDEMAND
To demand back; to demand again.
ASSURGENT
Ascending;
EXURGENT
Arising; coming to light.
RESURGENT
Rising again, as from the dead. Coleridge.
INSURGENT
Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, or against an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. "The insurgent provinces." Motley.
TURGENT
1. Rising into a tumor, or a puffy state; swelling; tumid; as, turgent humors. 2. Inflated; bombastic; turgid; pompous. Recompensed with turgent titles. Burton.
SURGENT
Rising; swelling, as a flood. Robert Greene.