importunes

Verb

importune (third-person singular simple present importunes, present participle importuning, simple past and past participle importuned)

1. (transitive) 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
2. (transitive) 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]...
3. (transitive) To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
4. (obsolete, transitive) 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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