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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Importune \Im`por*tune"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Importuned}; p.
pr & vb n. {Importuning}.] [From {Importune}, a.: cf F.
importuner.]
1. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with
frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or
pertinacity; hence to tease; to irritate; to worry.
Their ministers and residents here have perpetually
importuned the court with unreasonable demands.
--Swift.
2. To import; to signify. [Obs.] ``It importunes death.''
--Spenser.
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