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Wooing   /wˈuɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Woo  v. t.  (past & past part. wooed; pres. part. wooing)  
1.
To solicit in love; to court. "Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes The image he himself has wrought."
2.
To court solicitously; to invite with importunity. "Thee, chantress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even song." "I woo the wind That still delays his coming."


Woo  v. i.  (past & past part. wooed; pres. part. wooing)  To court; to make love.





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"Wooing" Quotes from Famous Books



... mother could not refrain from commenting now and again upon it, that, since his diffident wooing in the old days, Herr Garlan had not once ventured so much as to make the slightest further allusion to the past, or even to a possible future. And thus Bertha, in addition to the other reproaches to which she had to listen, incurred the blame for treating Herr Garlan with too great indifference, ...
— Bertha Garlan • Arthur Schnitzler
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... wooing, fondly sueing, Let me love, nor love in vain; Fate shall never fond hearts sever, Hearts still bound ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
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... may be Scotch folk's wooing; but if that's the gait Betty Bodle means to use you, Watty, my dear, I would see her, and a' the Kilmarkeckles that ever were cleckit, doon the water, or strung in a wuddy, before I would hae onything to say ...
— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop
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... relief to hundreds that night when taps sounded at last, and the master switch turned off the lights in midshipmen quarters. At least the young men were healthy and did not waste hours in wooing sleep and forgetfulness. ...
— Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis - Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen • H. Irving Hancock
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... her. 'Twas the strangest wooing. The clock pointed to eleven. The house was dead silent. Her eyes widened with pain and fear. ...
— The Ladies - A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty • E. Barrington
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