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verb

Court v. t. (past & past part. courted; pres. part. courting)

To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with. "By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted."

To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo. "If either of you both love Katharina... Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure."

To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek. "They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom." "Guilt and misery... court privacy and solitude."

To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract. "A well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge."

Court v. i.

To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.

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Etymology of 'Courting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Courting" Quotes from Famous Books

... Killigrew left Venice the same day as he was bound to do by ambassadorial etiquette; and Charles had not another recognized agent to the Republic until his restoration; for the Venetians definitely adopted the policy of courting Cromwell, in the vain hope that he would assist them against ...

— The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 • Various

... me get a wife. If you find a pretty one—one who may perhaps lend a sigh to my harmonies, do the courting for me. But she must be beautiful; I cannot love anything that is not beautiful; if I could, I should ...

— The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 • Rupert Hughes

... a musing tone. "If you had a country-house you could manage better. Elderly gentlemen are usually pleased with domestic attractions, and there are many little attentions that you and Eva could show them which in any other position would look like courting them. Then there would be no danger of competition. Indeed, if a pretty girl has a gentleman all to herself for a week or two at a romantic country-house, a wedding is sure to follow. But there must ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 15, - No. 86, February, 1875 • Various

... When they go courting, here's what they wear: An old leather coat, and it's all ripped and tore; And an old brown hat with the brim tore down, And a pair of dirty socks, they've worn ...

— Cowboy Songs - and Other Frontier Ballads • Various

... provokingly, when the robin fills its scarlet breast and the starling floats in ecstasy through the perfumed air, when the pigeon coyly woos its mate, and the butterfly flirts with the dazzling multicolors of its wings, when all the marvelous devices of sex attraction in nature, selection and courting, mating and reproducing are pondered, who but must wonder at the infinite possibilities of reaction of the sex hormones? All is for love, and all is because of the love in the blood that is manufactured unconsciously by a ...

— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

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