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importance (? ‘consequence’ or sense 3 in Wint. II. i. 180*)
1. matter, affair (of slight importance) Cym. I. iv. 47 “upon importance of so slight . . . a nature.”
2. importunity, solicitude John II. i. 7 “At our ”
3. import, meaning Wint. V. ii. 20.
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