Lexic.us

Definition of Importune

1. Verb. Beg persistently and urgently. "They importune to move "; "I importune you to help them"

Definition of Importune

1. a. Inopportune; unseasonable.

2. v. t. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.

3. v. i. To require; to demand.

Definition of Importune

1. Verb. To bother, trouble, irritate. ¹

2. Verb. To harass with persistent requests. ¹

3. Verb. To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals. ¹

4. Adjective. (obsolete) Grievous, severe, exacting. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Importune

1. [v -TUNED, -TUNING, -TUNES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Importune

Literary usage of Importune

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. English Verse by William James Linton, Richard Henry Stoddard (1883)
"importune ME NO MORE! When I was fair and young, and favour graced me, ... importune me no more ! How many weeping eyes I made to pine with woe, ..."

2. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"to importune me. Such is fame! In the meantime the great question how the most beneficially to apply this enormous sum is about to be imposed upon us, ..."

3. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"The scholars begin to importune Leave of return* home. However yesterday Morn- the three classes stood as follows Young Senior Class 26. of which 2 abs. ..."

4. Documents Relative to the Colonial History of the State of New-York by John Romeyn Brodhead, Berthold Fernow, Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (State). Legislature (1881)
"... whether 25 or 30 soldiers could not conveniently be spared, to be stationed in the country places about here and as some soldiers' wives importune us, ..."

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