Wooing definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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My best love to Mary C. BRONTE Meanwhile, as I have said, a second lover appeared on the field in this same year, 1839, and the quickness of his wooing is a remarkable testimony to the peculiar fascination which Miss Bronte must have exercised TO MISS ELLEN NUSSEY August 4_th_, 1839 MY DEAREST ELLEN,--I have an odd circumstance to relate to you--prepare for a hearty laugh!

—Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle

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a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)

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In the 1950s and 1960s PG&E came a-wooing, offering to relieve the City of the headache of running an electric company. — VoIP & Gadgets Blog
He had been at it -- wooing customers, working 12-hour days, and immersing himself in business deals worth thousands and even millions of dollars -- for 31 years.
A week of presidential wooing -- including a visit to the Capitol, a return visit to the White House by moderate House Republicans and a bipartisan cocktail party Wednesday night -- did not yield a single Republican vote. — BrothersJudd Blog
When male hippos set to wooing, they don't go in for flowers or chocolate - they fling their feces at females. — Fast Company
And thus, Sir Fool, I courted and won the princess--by proxy Of a certainty, your wooing was at least novel, Sir Knight of the Vulture's Nest," dryly observed the jester. — Under the Rose