| 单词 |
importunable |
| 释义 |
† imˈportunable, a. Obs. Also 5 in-. [f. importune a. (or ? v.) + -able.] 1. Burdensome, onerous, grievous, heavy.
1482Paston Lett. No. 867 III. 297 [They] wold have..taryd hym there and his councell to his gret inportunabill charges. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 18 Preamble, To theyr greate importunable losse troble hurte and dammayge. 1529More Dyaloge i. 23 b/2 Forbyddyng them to binde and lay vppon other pore mennys bakkes importunable burdeyns. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxi. §3 They felt the weight of their done wrongs too importunable for them any longer to beare. 2. Troublesome; = importunate a. 2 b.
1566Drant Horace, Sat. i. ix. argt., In generall he controwleth people inquisitiue, and importunable tatlers. |

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