Plead vs Importune - What's the difference?
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Plead is a related term of importune. As verbs the difference between plead and importune is that plead is to present an argument, especially in a legal case while importune is .
plead English
Verb
To present an argument, especially in a legal case.
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* Bible, Job xvi. 21
- O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!
To beg, beseech, or implore.
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Related terms
* plea
* pleasant
* please
* pleasurable
* pleasure
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importune English
Verb
( importun)
To bother, trouble, irritate.
* , II.17:
- To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me.
To harass with persistent requests.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
- You were kneel'd to, and importun'd otherwise / By all of us;.
* Jonathan Swift
- Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands.
To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
(obsolete) To import; to signify.
* Spenser
- It importunes death.
Adjective
( en adjective)
(obsolete) Grievous, severe, exacting.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
- And therewithall he fiercely at him flew, / And with importune outrage him assayld [...].
(obsolete) inopportune; unseasonable
(obsolete) troublesome; vexatious; persistent
* Spenser
- And their importune fates all satisfied.
* Francis Bacon
- Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual.
Related terms
* importunate
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