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adjective

Important adj.

Full of, or burdened by, import; charged with great interests; restless; anxious. (Obs.) "Thou hast strength as much As serves to execute a mind very important."

Carrying or possessing weight or consequence; of valuable content or bearing; significant; weighty. "Things small as nothing... He makes important."

Bearing on; forcible; driving. (Obs.) "He fiercely at him flew, And with important outrage him assailed."

Importunate; pressing; urgent. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Weighty; momentous; significant; essential; necessary; considerable; influential; serious.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... forests were all in leaf but the ash trees, and they were unfolding their buds. And along a bridle-path a few miles southwest of York a lad of fourteen was riding, while behind him followed a handsome deerhound. A boy of fourteen, at that age of the world, was an older and more important personage than he is to-day. If he were well-born he had, generally, by this time, served his time as a page and was become an esquire in the train of some noble lord. That this lad had not done ...

— A Boy's Ride • Gulielma Zollinger

... children have been consigned to them, that other occupations may not have been considered as falling within the province of their stations. But whatever may have been the causes, polygamy or concubinage has unquestionably been the greatest, in hindering women from occupying an useful, dignified, and important station in society. This custom has held them up as little better than slaves, or than living toys or play-things. And this custom has prevailed over a great portion of the globe from times of the earliest antiquity ...

— A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Clarkson

... a scene is now acting upon the great theatre of the world, and as the chief performer has recently closed one of the acts with a very important incident, it may, by many be considered as a relaxation, to employ a few minutes in taking a concise view of our own little theatre; the leader of which has also so lately closed his ...

— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor - Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 • Samuel James Arnold

... complaisant sense of the decencies would let her, she went out from Boston to call on Mrs. Saintsbury in Cambridge, and thank her for her kindness to Alice and herself. "She will know well enough what I come for," she said to herself, and she felt it the more important to ignore Mrs. Saintsbury's penetration by every polite futility; this was due to them both: and she did not go till the second ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... until they found several songs they both knew. Mrs. Morrell brushed aside Keith's suggestion that she herself should sing, but she did it in a way that left the implication that he was the important ...

— The Gray Dawn • Stewart Edward White

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