verb
definition
To bother, trouble, irritate.
definition
To harass with persistent requests.
definition
To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
definition
To import; to signify.
Examples of importuned in a Sentence
Everywhere the imperial competitor was victorious, and crowded audiences importuned him to display his talents.
But it is not probable that his curiosity would have overcome his habitual sluggishness, and his love of the smoke, the mud, and the cries of London, had not Boswell importuned him to attempt the adventure, and offered to be his squire.
The friars importuned Despujols for Rizal's life but he persistently refused their demand, and met the case half-way by banishing Rizal to Mindanao.
Having been often importuned to preach at Cowbridge, this morning I set out with sister Jones and others.
But he found it difficult to avoid taking a side; he was importuned to sign the Covenant, and "finding it impossible to evade doing very unhandsome things," he obtained leave in October 1643 from the king to travel abroad.
This is one rule of wisdom with regard to religion; and another equally important is to avoid superstition, which he boldly defines as the belief that God is like a hard judge who, eager to find fault, narrowly examines our slightest act, that He is revengeful and hard to appease, and that therefore He must be flattered and importuned, and won over by pain and sacrifice.