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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Importuning (0.01096 detik)
Found 2 items, similar to Importuning.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: importune
importune
v : beg persistently and urgently;
“I importune you to help
them” [syn:
insist]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Importuning
Importune
\Im`por*tune"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Importuned
([i^]m`p[o^]r*t[=u]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n.
Importuning.]
[From
Importune, a.: cf. F. importuner.]
1. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with
frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or
pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.
[1913 Webster]
Their ministers and residents here have perpetually
importuned the court with unreasonable demands.
--Swift.
[1913 Webster]
2. To import; to signify. [Obs.]
“It importunes death.”
--Spenser.
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