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importune

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9 lettersPronunciation /ɪmpɔːˈtjuːn/Part of speech verbSorted eimnoprtuStarts with IEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. beg persistently and urgently

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me.
  • But I will no longer importune my young cousin.
  • Gentlemen, importune me no farther, / For hovv I firmly am reſolu'd you knovv: / That is, not to beſtovv my yongeſt daughter, / Before I haue a husband for the elder: […]

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