wooer
noun/ˈwuːə/UK/ˈwuəɹ/US
Etymology
Definitions
Someone who woos or courts.
- Penelope for her Vliſſes ſake, / Deuiz'd a VVeb her vvooers to deceaue: / in vvhich the vvorke that ſhe all day did make / the ſame at night ſhe did againe vnreaue, […]
- Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
- She wrote such a widow-like refusal when she went from me, as might not exclude hope in any other wooer; whatever it may do in Mr. Tony Harlowe.
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA