importune

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   beg persistently and urgently

   I importune you to help them.

2. 2
   verb

   To bother, irritate, trouble.

   To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me.

3. 3
   verb

   To import; to signify.

   It importunes death.

4. 4
   adj

   Troublesome; vexatious; persistent.

   And their importune fates all satisfide.

From Middle French importuner and its etymon Medieval Latin importūnor (“to make oneself troublesome”), from Latin importūnus (“unfit, troublesome”), originally "having no harbor".

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