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# Word of the day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-30/
- Published: 2019-08-29T18:15:34.000Z
- Updated: 2019-08-20T19:38:02.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

importune (verb) – 1\. To make an earnest request of (someone), especially insistently or repeatedly.  
2\. (Archaic)  
(a) To ask for (something) urgently or repeatedly.  
(b) To annoy; vex.

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/importune?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Importune has many synonyms—including beg, entreat, beseech, and implore. Beg suggests earnestness or insistence especially in asking for a favour (“the children begged to stay up late”). Entreat implies an effort to persuade or to overcome resistance (“she entreated him to change his mind”). Beseech implies great eagerness or anxiety (“I beseech you to have mercy”), and implore adds to beseech a suggestion of greater urgency or anguished appeal (“he implored her not to leave him”). But it is importune that best conveys irritating doggedness in trying to break down resistance to a request and the accompanying annoyance (“the filmmakers were importuning viewers for contributions”), as it has since Middle English speakers adopted it from Anglo-French.