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# importunate

«importunate» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **asking again and again, pushing for something so hard…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/importunate/#m1)

2) (old use) An importunate person will not take «no» for an answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/importunate/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/importunate/#x1)
- The importunate suitor would not leave the palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/importunate/#x2)
- The princess was tired of one more importunate suitor. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/importunate/#x3)
- The little dog was importunate, begging at every table. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/importunate/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are importunate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.783/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «importunate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/I/importunate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.