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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How to use courtship in a sentence?

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. 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.

3. Jennifer Dorman:

   Language evolves as cultural shifts emerge and people seek new words to communicate their environment, feelings and behavior, dating culture was already taking place online, but the pandemic pushed singletons everywhere towards apps, video dating and socially distanced courtship.

4. 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.

5. Devoney Looser:

   What's most challenging for any adapter of Jane Austen must be capturing Jane Austen fiction's incredible combination of comedy, irony and social criticism, along with genuinely moving stories of courtship.