importune Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb beg persistently and urgently
    insist.
    • I importune you to help them

WordNet

Im`por*tune" transitive verb
Etymology
From Importune, a.: cf. F. importuner.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Importuned ; present participle & verbal noun Importuning
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. To import; to signify. Obs. "It importunes death." Spenser.
Im`por*tune" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To require; to demand. Obs.
    We shall write to you, As time and our concernings shall importune. Shak.

Webster 1913