Inopportune; unseasonable. [Obs.]
Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. [Obs.] And their importune fates all satisfied. Spenser. Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual. Bacon.
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.
To import; to signify. [Obs.] "It importunes death." Spenser.
To require; to demand. [Obs.] We shall write to you, As time and our concernings shall importune. Shak.
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