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Woo v. t. (past & past part. wooed; pres. part. wooing)

To solicit in love; to court. "Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes The image he himself has wrought."

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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"Woo" Quotes from Famous Books

... "of the fair hair," the woman is proud and beautiful Gyda, whose former scorn for him, in the days when he was nothing but the petty chief of a few barren mountains, provoked that strange wild vow of his, "That he would never clip or comb his locks till he could woo her as sole king ...

— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)

... boy, in another few months I shall pack up and return to America, and once more woo the elusive editor. I am looking forward to our sitting by your fireside and, through the cloud of tobacco-smoke, weaving again our old romances. I am really proud of you, Edgerton, and know that you must be a tremendous power ...

— The Parts Men Play • Arthur Beverley Baxter

... Sue only made Jude the more miserable that he was unable to woo her, and he left the cottage of his aunt that day with a heavy heart. He would fain have glanced into the school to see the room in which Sue's little figure had so glorified itself; but he checked his ...

— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy

... to him. At present the discomfort and sorrow of not feeling at liberty to make love to the woman he loved was some excuse for avoiding thought, and he found distraction in hard work and social engagements. With regard to Sophia he stayed his mind on the belief that if he dared not woo she was not being wooed, either by any man who was his rival, or by those luxuries and tranquillities of life which nowadays often lure young ...

— What Necessity Knows • Lily Dougall

... who, although she was twenty years old, and had by no means been without her admirers, had never yet kissed any man but her father and brothers, put up her rosy lips, as confidingly as a little child, to be kissed by this strange wooer, who wooed only for leave to woo. ...

— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson

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