Word Meanings - NONIMPORTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not importing; not bringing from foreign countries.

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• IMPORTUNELY
  In an importune manner.
• IMPORTUNATOR
  One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys.
• IMPORTING
  Full of meaning. Shak.
• IMPORTUNE
  derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
• IMPORTUNATE
  1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n.
• IMPORTUOUS
  Without a port or harbor.
• IMPORTANTLY
  In an important manner.
• FOREIGNER
  A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham.
• FOREIGNNESS
  The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot.
• BRINGER
  One who brings. Yet the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office. Shak. Bringer in, one who, or that which, introduces.
• IMPORT
  + portare to bear. Sense 3 comes through F. importer, from the Latin. 1. To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed
• IMPORTUNER
  One who importunes.
• IMPORTANT
  1. Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important. Chapman. 2. Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing;
• IMPORTANCY
  Importance; significance; consequence; that which is important. Shak. "Careful to conceal importancies." Fuller.
• IMPORTANCE
  1. The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance. Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below. Pope. 2. Subject; matter. Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature. Shak.
• IMPORTLESS
  Void of meaning. Shak.
• IMPORTABLE
  Capable of being imported.
• IMPORTER
  One who imports; the merchant who brings goods into a country or state; -- opposed to exporter.
• 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.
• FOREIGN
  foras, foris, out of doors, abroad, without; akin to fores doors, and 1. Outside; extraneous; separated; alien; as, a foreign country; a foreign government. "Foreign worlds." Milton. 2. Not native or belonging to a certain country; born
• NONIMPORTATION
  Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.
• REIMPORTATION
  The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.
• REIMPORT
  To import again; to import what has been exported; to bring back. Young.
• NONIMPORTING
  Not importing; not bringing from foreign countries.
• REIMPORTUNE
  To importune again.