importunate
part of speech
adjective (more importunate, most importunate)
meaning for a pupil
1) Importunate means asking again and again, pushing for something so hard that other people grow tired of it. tree →
2) (old use) An importunate person will not take «no» for an answer. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Here it means excessive or too many, showing that an enemy's kisses are too much to be trusted. Interpretation: Proverbs teaches that a true friend's honest rebuke is better than a false friend's flattery. In the primary lessons: in fairy tales, a suitor or pest who keeps asking until the princess is worn out; old use, said of a suitor who will not go away
examples
- Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are importunate. (Writings PRO.27.6, JPS 1917) tree →
- The importunate suitor would not leave the palace. tree →
- The princess was tired of one more importunate suitor. tree →
- The little dog was importunate, begging at every table. tree →
note
nothing for maths
In the corpora
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «importunate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.