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. Harry Reid:

   As our relationship built, her parents came to the realization that it could be something serious and it was a very difficult time, the last few years of courtship, because they of course wanted her to meet somebody Jewish.

2. Marcel Archard:

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

3. 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.

4. Laurence Sterne:

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

5. 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.