importuned
importuned is the simple past and past participle of importune.
Meaning of importune
Verb
importune (third-person singular simple present importunes, present participle importuning, simple past and past participle importuned)
- To bother, irritate, trouble.
- To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XVII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- To harass with persistent requests.
- Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly am reſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder: […]c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
- To import; to signify.
- It importunes death.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16
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- Importuned is the simple past and past participle of importune.
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