woo
verb (used with object)
to seek the favor, affection, or love of, especially with a view to marriage.
unwooed
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a word derived from
woo.
Example Sentences
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Carol J. Lastrucci San Francisco We unwooed and unwon liberal Republicans just may have a candidate after all.
From Time Magazine Archive
In vain we grasp Her purple wings; Unwon, unwooed, she flits to dwell With humble things; She shares my sightless singer's cage, And so—he sings.
From Verses by Susan Coolidge
I sighed my heart into the boughs Whereby the culvers cooed; For only I between them went Unwooing and unwooed.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
I will grant you, that unwooed previously, and without any foundation laid, if I may express myself so irreverently, your theory might turn out to be true; but not so under actual circumstances.
From Satanstoe by James Fenimore Cooper
But this strange bloom, by sun and wind unwooed, Seems to expand and blossom 'mid the snows, A lily sceptreless, a scentless rose, For dainty listlessness of maidenhood.
From A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Ellen Marriage
