Woo
[wuː] or [wu]
Definition
(verb.) make amorous advances towards; 'John is courting Mary'.
(verb.) seek someone's favor; 'China is wooing Russia'.
Checker: Rowena--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To solicit in love; to court.
(v. t.) To court solicitously; to invite with importunity.
(v. i.) To court; to make love.
Checked by Erwin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Court, solicit in love, make love to, pay one's addresses to.
v. n. Court, make love.
Editor: Michel
Definition
v.t. to ask in order to marriage: to court: to solicit eagerly to seek.—v.i. to court or make love: to ask.—ns. Woo′er; Woo′ing.
Checker: Sherman
Examples
- Were the goddess of beauty to woo me, I could not meet her advances. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If you would have had Lord Triton down here to woo her with his philanthropy, he might have carried her off before the year was over. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For with roses do I woo thee, Sue thee! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I forbade you to think of Helena as a bride, but, provided you brought Roylands here, I gave you permission to woo her. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But this sleep--I _should_ like to woo it to your pillow, to win for you its favour. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Half his destiny would then be determined, but the other half might not be so very smoothly wooed. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- It is meeter for thy humour to be wooed with bow and bill, than in set terms, and in courtly language. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- But as he gradually recovered, Mrs Boffin gradually introduced herself; and smiling peace was gradually wooed back to Mrs Betty Higden's home. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- She is, I suspect, akin to that Solitude which I once wooed, and from which I now seek a divorce. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Helena's a woman, therefore may be wooed. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- 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.
Editor: Monica