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importune
verb transitive
[L. importunus; in and porto, to bear on.]
To request 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.
importune
adjective
Pressing in request; urgent; troublesome by frequent demands; vexatious; unreasonable.