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
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
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
One so good, so lovely, so fitted in every way to form the centre of another home circle as Fanny Elder, could hardly remain unwooed or unwon.
From True Riches Or, Wealth Without Wings by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
To this it may be due that Miss Arabella had reached the age of five and twenty not merely unmarried but unwooed.
From Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini
