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importunate (adjective) –

troublesomely urgent : overly persistent in request or demand

Source : Merriam -Webster

Etymology : Importunate has been part of the English language since the 16th century, and the synonymous “importune” arrived even earlier, in the 15th century. The seemingly superfluous inclusion of the suffix -ate in “importunate” is a bit mysterious; one theory is that English speakers modeled the adjective after words like “obstinate.” “Importune” and “importunate” come from Latin importunus. The prefix im- means “not,” and “importunus” can be contrasted with Latin opportunus, which shares its meaning with and is the ancestor of our opportune, meaning “suitable or timely.” (The connection is obscure now, but “opportunus” itself harks back to the Latin phrase ob portum, meaning “[coming] to harbour.”) “Importune,” and later “importunate,” once meant “inopportune, untimely,” but that sense is now obsolete.

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David is a retired surgeon originally from London who came to New Zealand twenty-seven years ago after being delayed in Singapore for thirteen years on leaving the UK. He was coerced into studying Latin...