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- noun Plural form of
wooing .
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Examples
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It had been one of those real devoted wooings which books and people praise, when the lover is at length rewarded for hammering the iron till it is malleable, and all must be happy ever after as the wedding bells.
The Man of Property 2004
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The god grew impatient to find his wooings thrown away, and, sped by Cupid, gained upon her in the race.
The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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I listened to the wooings of the black boys to the breeze.
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The god grew impatient to find his wooings thrown away, and, sped by Cupid, gained upon her in the race.
The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003
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Then away, on painted wings of gratified imagination, is the mind carried to the zephyr wooings of the dying sunset, over the elevated brow of the dark
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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He walks through Quincy Market, for instance, with far more pleasure than through the dewy and moonlit groves which were the scenes of his youthful wooings.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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Such as you read in your books of the pleadings and wooings of lovers,
Narrative and Lyric Poems (first series) for use in the Lower School O. J. Stevenson
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She had seen tragedies of animal life, lonely death-struggles, horrible flights and more horrible captures, she had seen joyous wooings, love-pinings, partings, and bereavements.
The Branding Iron Katharine Newlin Burt 1929
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There he heard a sermon that brought him under deep, pungent conviction, so much so that he trembled, but he would not yield to the Spirit's wooings.
Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Ray 1924
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When his wooings become a nuisance to the neighborhood, his mother steals them back, and has them let out to fit the middle-aged form of her husband, thereby keeping William at home.
The Ghost Breaker A Melodramatic Farce in Four Acts Charles Goddard 1915
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