Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM-POR-TUNE'
IM-POR-TUNE', v.t. [Fr. importuner; Sp. importunar; It. importunare; from L. importunus; in and porto, to bear on.]
To request quest with urgency; to press with solicitation; to urge with frequent or unceasing application. Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. Swift.
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