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importune
early 15c., from M.Fr.
importuner
, from M.L.
importunari
"to make oneself troublesome," from L.
importunus
"unfit, troublesome," originally "having no harbor" (i.e. "difficult to access"), from
in-
"not" +
portus
"harbor" (see
port
).
