Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Importunately.
- Inopportunely.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete In an importune manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb obsolete In an
importune manner.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Refusing all means of escape to which his friends continually and importunely urged him, he took the poisoned cup from the hands of the boy who brought it to him in his prison-chamber, drank it off calmly amid the tears and sobs of surrounding friends, walked about till the draught had begun to take effect upon his system, and then laid himself down upon his bed, and soon breathed his last.
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At the end of a single year it is not to be doubted that requisition would be importunely urged for a far more numerous body of the same description.
The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908
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Most importunely, I want to know how to use my flash (Nikon SB900) so as to add some light to the light already present.
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Most importunely, I want to know how to use my flash (Nikon SB900) so as to add some light to the light already present.
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When, one by one, all of his women patients stopped doing the work of free association that they had at first enthusiastically taken up and began shyly and then importunely to declare their love for him, he shrewdly surmised that it was not 'the charms of my person' that were the cause of the disturbance but, rather, that the women were in a state of readiness to fall in love, and he was simply Bottom to their Titania.
The Patient Is Always Right Malcolm, Janet 1984
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Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you -- The burden of this faithful and uncompromising address was to show them, that though they had obtained the change of government they had so importunely desired, their conduct was highly displeasing to their heavenly King; nevertheless, if they remained faithful to Him and to the principles of the theocracy, they might be delivered from many of the evils to which the new state of things would expose them.
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