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.
IMPORTUNE
Im`por*tune", v. i.
Defn: To require; to demand. [Obs.]
We shall write to you, As time and our concernings shall importune.
Shak.
IMPORTUNELY
Im`por*tune"ly, adv.
Defn: In an importune manner. [Obs.]
IMPORTUNER
Im`por*tun"er, n.
Defn: One who importunes.
IMPORTUNITY Im`por*tu"ni*ty, n.; pl. Importunities. Etym: [L. importunitas unsuitableness, rudeness: cf. F. importunité.]
Defn: The quality of being importunate; pressing or pertinacious
solicitation; urgent request; incessant or frequent application;
troublesome pertinacity.
O'ercome with importunity and tears. Milton.