Synonyms for courtship
ˈkɔrt ʃɪp, ˈkoʊrt-courtship

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1. courtship, wooing, courting, suitnoun

   a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a woman (usually with the hope of marriage)

   "its was a brief and intense courtship"

   Synonyms:
   courting, case, lawsuit, suit, suit of clothes, wooing, cause, causa

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1. • Entreaty

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1. courtshipnoun

   Synonyms:
   wooing

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1. Laurence Sterne:

   Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

2. Jurgen Otto:

   They are very, very colorful, they often have iridescent scales and they do something quite remarkable. They perform a courtship dance for females, to impress them.

3. Marcel Archard:

   The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

4. Kahlil Gibran:

   It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

5. Helen Fisher:

   A lot of young people now don’t want to spend time going out with somebody unless they get to know them physically first, you can learn a lot about people between the sheets. Are they kind? Can they listen? Do they have a sense of humor? Millennials are using sex as an interview tool and even a courtship tool to jump-start a relationship.