Antonyms for courtship
ˈkɔrt ʃɪp, ˈkoʊrt-courtship

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1. • Entreaty

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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

How to use courtship in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Danielle Lindemann:

   The Old School courtship, the extreme gender roles, the competition aspect, and the fact that nobody ever eats on dates -- the show doesn't really reflect a version of dating that's recognizable to very many of us.

5. Laurence Sterne:

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

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