All 3 Uses of
importune
in
Othello, the Moor of Venice
- Our general's wife is now the general;— I may say so in this respect, for that he hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and graces:—confess yourself freely to her; importune her help to put you in your place again: she is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested: this broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter; and, my fortunes against any lay worth naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before.†
Scene 2.3
- go and importune her.
Scene 3.4 *importune = beg persistently and urgently
- Now he importunes him To tell it o'er: go to; well said, well said.†
Scene 4.1importunes = begs insistently or urges repeatedly
Definition:
beg insistently or urge repeatedly