He tried wooing her with love poems.
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Wooing
Synonyms for "wooing" (67 found)
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flirtationforbidden fruitgallantryglamourinducementinterestinveiglementinvitationmagnetismseducementseductionseductivenessserenadesex appealsnaringsolicitationsuingsuittantalizationtemptation
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Adjective(2 words)
formal courtingromantic courtship
Verb(1 words)
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8 entriespolitical wooingpublic wooingromantic wooingsincere wooingstrategic wooingsustained wooingtargeted wooingvoter wooing
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“You would have thought the middle of that prairie a fairly safe place for a man to be private,” said he, “but, by thunder, the whole country-side seems to have been out to see me do my wooing."
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"And now already from the heaven's high steep / the dewy night wheels down, and sinking slow, / the stars are gently wooing us to sleep. / But, if thy longing be so great to know / the tale of Troy's last agony and woe, / the toils we suffered, though my heart doth ache, / and grief would fain the memory forego / of scenes so sad, yet, Lady, for thy sake / I will begin," and thus the sire of Troy outspake:
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A man giving a gift of roses is wooing a woman.
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