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Importune

Part of Speech: Noun

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

2. To import; to signify.

Part of Speech: verb

1. To require; to demand.

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Whitelocke told him that he should have the same liberty at his house, who was one of his sons, as he could take at the houses of any other of his children; but the Chancellor earnestly desired to be excused, and Whitelocke thought not fit further to importune him, but desired him to hasten his return hither, which he promised to do. - "A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II.", Bulstrode Whitelocke.
Sir, I will speak but once; by the same power You make my blood a stranger unto yours, You may command me dead, and so much love A stranger may importune, pray you do; If this request appear too much to grant, Adopt me of some other Family, By your unquestion'd word; else I shall live Like sinfull issues that are left in streets By their regardless Mothers, and no name Will be found for me. - "A King, and No King", Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.
Each recurring day, When I would still importune him, he bears A sterner aspect, and 'twere better now That we should speak no more of this our vow. - "The Song of the Exile--A Canadian Epic", Wilfred S. Skeats.

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