2. Noun. The act by which somebody is importuned; pleading harassment. ¹
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Definition of Importuning
1. importune [v] - See also: importune
Lexicographical Neighbors of Importuning
Literary usage of Importuning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"_ Unseasonably engaging; improperly importuning. She of late is lightened of her
womb, That her to see should be but troublesome. 7. Importunate ; teasing. ..."
2. The Æneid of Virgil by Virgil (1910)
"So saying, he turned him to a sacred stream, Took water from its brim, and offered
Heaven Much prayer, with many an importuning vow. Soon o'er the spreading ..."
3. The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of the Most by Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott (1811)
"To which Hodge replied, with the sneer of a Garrow, " Yeu 're a deuced deal
likelier to frighten my barrow." A PUN ON MY DAUGHTER ARABELLA'S importuning ME ..."
4. Good Old Dorchester: A Narrative History of the Town, 1630-1893 by William Dana Orcutt (1891)
"For threescore years and ten, aye, more, I have been importuning Nature to disclose
the secrets of her wonder-working power by which she strews the earth ..."
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