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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



... of aspect Olaf was, and how handsome and courteous withal, she at once yearned for his love and craved that he should wed with her and become a ruler in the land. Many legends which have come down to us from that time even state that she straightway fell a-wooing him, and that in the end they were married, and ruled the realm side by side. But it is not easy to believe that one who was heir to the throne of Norway would be content to remain in Wendland at the bidding of a woman he did not love, and it is to be remembered that Olaf was still ...
— Olaf the Glorious - A Story of the Viking Age • Robert Leighton

... lightest of winter sleepers in the azurine latitudes, stirs to her vernal awakening. None the less, in the Tennessee March the orchardist, watching the high-blown clouds in skies of the softest blue, is glad if the peach buds are slow in responding to the touch of the wooing airs, or, chewing a black birch twig as he makes the leisurely round of his line fence, warns his gardening neighbor that it is too early to plant beans. True, the poplars may be showing a tinge of green, and the buds of the hickory may have lighted their tiny candle flames ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

... singing their weird, raucous, monotonous song, and saw them burrowing in the dry chip-dust near him. He saw the young colts and cattle frisking in the sunny space around the straw-stacks, absorbed through his bare arms and uncovered head the heat of the sun, and felt the soft wooing of the air so deeply that he broke into an ...
— Other Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... wrong, And every sorrow reigning men among. Know I can soothe thee, please and marry thee To my illusions. Old and siren-strong, I smile immortal, while the mortals flee Who whiten on to death in wooing me. ...
— Thoughts, Moods and Ideals: Crimes of Leisure • W.D. Lighthall

... that. The Southern politicians have succeeded in many shrewd political contrivances in the course of our history, but this last is certainly their masterpiece. Its only parallel or precedent is to be found in Richard's wooing ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 • Various


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