importune

To bother, irritate, trouble.

To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me.

But I will no longer importune my young cousin.

To harass with persistent requests.

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: […]

You were kneel'd to, & importun'd otherwiſe / By all of vs; […]

To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.

To import; to signify.

It importunes death.

Grievous, severe, exacting.

And therewithall he fiercely at him flew, / And with importune outrage him assayld [...].

Inopportune; unseasonable.

Troublesome; vexatious; persistent.

And their importune fates all satisfide.

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

Synonym of importuner.

And yet in ſome Courts it is otherwiſe vſed, for in Spaine it is thought very vndecent for a Courtier to craue, ſuppoſing that it is the part of an importune: […]

Which ſhew that importunate People will affirm any Thing, to ſerve Turns, though never fo ſenſeleſs; hoping ſome, that underſtand little, or are very willing, will give credit upon their Authority: And, if Juſtice muſt ſtay till ſuch Importunes are ſatisfied, there’s a ne plus ultra of all Law.