Wooing
[wu:ɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Woo
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Suit, courtship, addresses.
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Examples
- I find on this pavement that wanderer-wooing summer night of which I mused; I see its moon over me; I feel its dew in the air. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His second wooing, he resolved, should be as calm and simple as possible. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Remember you are to that extent responsible for my wooing with Eunice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Under the utilitarian motive of Rosedale's wooing she had felt, clearly enough, the heat of personal inclination. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- This had been a well-known signal in old times when Wildeve had used to come secretly wooing to Mistover. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Mr. Barkis's wooing, as I remember it, was altogether of a peculiar kind. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Crispin, I am going a-wooing! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It must be admitted to be a ghostly kind of wooing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I am taking an interest in life—in your wooing of Eunice, and in Caliphronas. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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