Both Uses of
importune
in
Paradise Lost
- which compelled
Me thus, though importune perhaps, to come
And gaze, and worship thee of right declared
Sovran of creatures, universal Dame!†Book 9
- Both have sinned; but thou
Against God only; I against God and thee;
And to the place of judgement will return,
There with my cries importune Heaven; that all
The sentence, from thy head removed, may light
On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe;
Me, me only, just object of his ire!†Book 10 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(importune) beg insistently or urge repeatedly
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus