Importune /(ĭm`pŏr*tūn")/

1. Inopportune; unseasonable. [Obs.]
2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or pertinacious solicitation. [Obs.]

   And their importune fates all satisfied.

   Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual.

imp. & p. p. Importuned; p. pr. & vb. n. Importuning

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.

2. To import; to signify. [Obs.]

1. To require; to demand. [Obs.]

   We shall write to you, As time and our concernings shall importune.