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3 definitions found 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Importune \Im`por*tune"\, v. i. To require; to demand. [Obs.] We shall write to you As time and our concernings shall importune. --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: importune v : beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them" [syn: {insist}]
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