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  • noun Plural form of pestering.

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Examples

  • At first I declined to listen to the recommendations, but finally, in response to the incessant pesterings, I consented.

    Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

  • All this he had told, little by little; and of the Queen's noble bearing upon the scaffold, her utter fearlessness, her protestations that she died for her religion and for that only, and of the pesterings of Dr. Fletcher, Dean of Peterborough, who had at last given over in despair, and prayed instead.

    Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • Some liberals have whined about the plight of these poor climate "scientists," being harrassed to death with thousands of FOIA requests and inquiries and pesterings about data and methods.

    Little Miss Attila 2009

  • β€œIn later life, when you have been finally allowed to pass muster as a full member of the world, you will yourself become liable to the pesterings of the unborn β€” and a very happy life you may be led in consequence!

    Erewhon 2003

  • "In later life, when you have been finally allowed to pass muster as a full member of the world, you will yourself become liable to the pesterings of the unborn -- and a very happy life you may be led in consequence!

    Erewhon; or, Over the range 1910

  • "In later life, when you have been finally allowed to pass muster as a full member of the world, you will yourself become liable to the pesterings of the unborn -- and a very happy life you may be led in consequence!

    Erewhon Samuel Butler 1868

  • "In later life, when you have been finally allowed to pass muster as a full member of the world, you will yourself become liable to the pesterings of the unborn -- and a very happy life you may be led in consequence!

    Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals Samuel Butler 1868

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