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   Im·por·tune

   /ˌimpərˈto͞on/

   

   verb

   • 1. harass (someone) persistently for or to do something: "reporters importuned him with pointed questions" Similar begbeseechentreatimploreplead withappeal toapply tocall onsupplicatesolicitpetitionenjoinharasspesterbesetpressdunbadgerbothertormentplaguehoundnagharrygo on atharp on atmitherinformal:hasslebugrare:obsecrate
   • ▪ approach (someone) to request or offer sexual services, especially as a prostitute: "the girl is charged with loitering in a public place with intent to solicit or importune another person" Similar solicitmake sexual advancesoffer one's services as a prostituteaccostapproachinformal:propositionhustle

   Word Origin mid 16th century: from French importuner or medieval Latin importunari, from Latin importunus ‘inconvenient, unseasonable’ (see importunate).

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   What does importune mean?

   • importune somebody (for something) | importune somebody to do something to ask somebody for something many times and in a way that is annoying synonym pester Topics Personal qualities c2 Want to learn more? Definition of importune verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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   Where did the word importune come from?

   • The earliest known use of the verb importune is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for importune is from 1530, in the writing of John Palsgrave, teacher and scholar of languages. importune is of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French importuner; Latin importunari.

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   What does it mean if someone importunes another person?

   • If someone importunes another person, they ask them for something or ask them to do something, in an annoying way. [formal, disapproval] [...] present simple: I importune, you importune [...] past simple: I importuned, you importuned [...] • pester, press, plague, hound [...]

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   Etymology

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

   Pronunciation

   1. (UK) IPA(key): /ɪmpɔːˈtjuːn/, /ɪmˈpɔːtjuːn/ 2. (US) IPA(key): /ɪmpɔɹˈtuːn/

   Verb

   importune (third-person singular simple present importunes, present participle importuning, simple past and past participle importuned) 1. To bother, irritate, trouble. 1.1. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter XVII, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes[…], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount[…], →OCLC: 1.1.1. To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importuneme. 1.2. 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter XIV, in Pride and Prejudice:[…], volume I, London: […] [Ge...

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   Verb

   importune 1. inflection of importuner: 1.1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive 1.2. second-person singular imperative

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   Adjective

   importune f pl 1. feminine plural of importuno

   Anagrams

   1. impunterò, premunito

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   Adjective

   importūne 1. vocative masculine singular of importūnus

   References

   1. “importune”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press 2. “importune”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers 3. importune in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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   Verb

   importune 1. inflection of importunar: 1.1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive 1.2. third-person singular imperative

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