WOOING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wooing mean? 

• WOOING (noun)
  The noun WOOING has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WOOING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOOING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

courting; courtship; suit; wooing

Context example:

its was a brief and intense courtship

Hypernyms ("wooing" is a kind of...):

appeal; entreaty; prayer (earnest or urgent request)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wooing"):

bundling (a onetime custom during courtship of unmarried couples occupying the same bed without undressing)

Derivation:

woo (make amorous advances towards)

 Context examples 

Yet it was right here, in his reticence, that the strength of his wooing lay.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His second wooing, he resolved, should be as calm and simple as possible.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Barkis's wooing, as I remember it, was altogether of a peculiar kind.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They might have fought, but even wooing and its rivalry waited upon the more pressing hunger-need of the pack.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

There were men who said that of all the stern passages and daring deeds by which Sir Nigel Loring had proved the true temper of his courage, not the least was his wooing and winning of so forbidding a dame.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As I passed the well-remembered door, which must always be associated in my mind with my wooing, and with the dark incidents of the Study in Scarlet, I was seized with a keen desire to see Holmes again, and to know how he was employing his extraordinary powers.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His first wooing had been of the tempestuous order, and he looked back upon it as if through a long vista of years with a feeling of compassion blended with regret.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Tongue-tied by inexperience and by excess of ardor, wooing unwittingly and awkwardly, Martin continued his approach by contact.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Ah, Watson, said Holmes, smiling, perhaps you would not be very gracious either, if, after all the trouble of wooing and wedding, you found yourself deprived in an instant of wife and of fortune.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But, to be brief over the matter, my father would have none of his wooing, nor in sooth would I. On that he swore a vow against us, and as he is known to be a perilous man, with many outlaws and others at his back, my father forbade that I should hawk or hunt in any part of the wood to the north of the Christchurch road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)