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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Importune \Im'por*tune"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Importuned} ([i^]m'p[o^]r*t[=u]nd"); p. pr. & vb. n. {Importuning}.] [From {Importune}, adjective: cf. F. importuner.]
1. To request or solicit, with urgency; to press with frequent, unreasonable, or troublesome application or pertinacity; hence, to tease; to irritate; to worry.
Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands. --Swift.
2. To import; to signify. [Obs.] ''It importunes death.'' --Spenser.
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