Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IM-POR-TUNE'
IM-POR-TUNE', a. [L. importunus. Formerly accented on the second syllable.]
- Pressing in request; urgent; troublesome by frequent demands; vexatious; unreasonable. Spenser. Bacon.
- Unseasonable. [This word is obsolete; being superseded by importunate, unless perhaps in poetry.]
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