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Hooker.

3. To be of importance or consequence to; to have a bearing on; to concern.

I have a motion much imports your good.

Shak.

If I endure it, what imports it you?

Dryden.

Syn. -- To denote; mean; signify; imply; indicate; betoken; interest; concern.

Im*port", v. i. To signify; to purport; to be of moment. "For that . . . importeth to the work." Bacon.

Im"port (?), n. 1. Merchandise imported, or brought into a country from without its boundaries; -- generally in the plural, opposed to exports.

I take the imports from, and not the exports to, these conquests, as the measure of these advantages which we derived from them.

Burke.

2. That which a word, phrase, or document contains as its signification or intention or interpretation of a word, action, event, and the like.

3. Importance; weight; consequence.

Most serious design, and the great import.

Shak.

Im*port"a*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. importable. See Import.] Capable of being imported.

Im*port"a*ble, a. [L. importabilis; pref. im- not + portabilis bearable: cf. OF. importable. See Portable.] Not to be endured; insupportable; intolerable. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Im*port"a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

Im*por"tance (?), n. [F. importance. See Important.] 1. The quality or state of being important; consequence; weight; moment; significance.

Thy own importance know, Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

Pope.

2. Subject; matter. [Obs.]

Upon importance of so slight and trivial a nature.

Shak.

3. Import; meaning; significance. [Obs.]

The wisest beholder could not say if the importance were joy or sorrow.

Shak.

4. Importunity; solicitation. [Obs.]

At our importance hither is he come.