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Meanings of wooer in English

Catalan
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A man who courts a woman.

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Examples for "suitor"
Examples for "suitor"
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Tredwell refused to accept the young medical student as a serious suitor.
Ghosts
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Real Madrid, another possible suitor, have yet to make contact with Roma.
The Guardian
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But many doubt that Inmet will rise to the rival suitor's challenge.
Reuters
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It also said had also rejected a proposal from another suitor, Redrow.
Reuters
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I can't believe some eligible suitor didn't grab you off the market.
Getting old is tres dangereux
1
Half the forfeiture was to go to the suer.
Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III
2
This enabled my master to breathe a little easier, and to feel that Mr. Cray was not his pur- suer after all.
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom / Or, The Escape of William...
Usage of wooer in English
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But when she was least expecting it, the wooer came to her.
Tales from Two Hemispheres
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D'Rubiera was an impatient and peremptory wooer, and he won the day.
Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science, Old Ser...
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The smiles at once broke loose and revelled over her wooer's face.
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903
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Your aunt, who is so good to me, is a fierce wooer.
Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker / Sometime Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on ...
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By-and-by he also held Lauzun, the adventurous wooer of la Grande Mademoiselle.
The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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Earlier in the summer he had been a very deliberate and conscientious wooer.
A Face Illumined
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This indefatigable wooer had not in the least abandoned his suit.
Desert Gold
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I am no gentle wooer; where in Sparta should I learn the art?
Pausanias, the Spartan; The Haunted and the Haunters / An Unfini...
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He took his sister by the hand and led her to the wooer.
Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know
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She were fittest Valentine in Perth for so craven a wooer.
The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day
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Diplomacy is the wooer of royal maidens, and diplomacy has chosen you both.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
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The young wooer showed himself less undecided, less enigmatic,-andthe understanding was completed.
Memoirs of Madame la Marquise de Montespan — Volume 6
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She hated herself after a day or two of wooing her official wooer.
We Can't Have Everything: A Novel
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Aasa was nineteen years old before she had a single wooer.
Tales from Two Hemispheres
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At thirty-eight the Reformer, we must remember, must have been no uncomely wooer.
John Knox and the Reformation
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Sustained by their presence, Shosshi felt a bold and gallant wooer.
Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People
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