Importune vs Sue - What's the difference?
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To bother, trouble, irritate.
* , II.17:
To harass with persistent requests.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
* Jonathan Swift
To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
(obsolete) To import; to signify.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Grievous, severe, exacting.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
(obsolete) inopportune; unseasonable
(obsolete) troublesome; vexatious; persistent
* Spenser
* Francis Bacon
To follow.
* , Bk.XIII, Ch.iv:
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queen) , III.iv:
(label) To file a legal action against someone, generally a non-criminal action.
(label) To seek by request; to make application; to petition; to entreat; to plead.
To clean (the beak, etc.).
To leave high and dry on shore.
To court.
Importune is a related term of sue.
As verbs the difference between importune and sue
is that importune is while sue is .importune
English
Verb
(importun)- To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me.
- You were kneel'd to, and importun'd otherwise / By all of us;.
- Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands.
- It importunes death.
Adjective
(en adjective)- And therewithall he fiercely at him flew, / And with importune outrage him assayld [...].
- And their importune fates all satisfied.
- Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual.
sue
English
Verb
- And the olde knyght seyde unto the yonge knyght, ‘Sir, swith me.’
- though oft looking backward, well she vewd, / Her selfe freed from that foster insolent, / And that it was a knight, which now her sewd , / Yet she no lesse the knight feard, then that villein rude.