IMPORTU'NE, verb transitive [Latin importunus; in and porto, to bear on.] To request with urgency; to press with solicitation; to urge with frequent or unceasing application. Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. IMPORTU'NE, adjective [Latin importunus. Formerly accented on the second syllable.] 1. Pressing in request; urgent; troublesome by frequent demands; vexatious; unreasonable. 2. Unseasonable. [This word is obsolete; being superseded by importunate, unless perhaps in poetry.]
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