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▪ I. wooing, vbl. n.|ˈwuːɪŋ|
Forms: 1 woᵹung, 3 wouhinge, wowunge, 4–6 wowyng, -ing, 6 woynge, wooyng, 7–8 woing, 7– wooing.
[f. woo v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb woo; amorous solicitation, courtship: in ME. often with dyslogistic implication.
c1000ælfric Saints' Lives vii. 301 Wearð þa se casere for þære woᵹunge astyrod. a1225Ancr. R. 204 Mid wouhinge, mid togginge, oðer mid eni tollunge. a1310in Wright Lyric P. vi. 28 Icham for wowyng al for-wake, wery so water in wore. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2361 Now know I wel þy cosses, & þy costes als, & þe wowyng of my wyf. c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1553 Hypsip. & Medea, As wolde god I leyser hadde & tyme By proces al his wowyng for to ryme. c1440Jacob's Well 164 Caste out..leccherous woordys, wowynges, leccherous syȝtes. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 195 Hys vnaduised wowyng, hasty louyng and to spedy mariage. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 884 Our woing doth not end like an old Play: Iacke hath not Gill. 1645Fuller Good Th. in Bad T. (1646) 106, I do not like the wooing, that you should fetch a Bride with Fire and Sword. 1721Ramsay ‘The Last Time I came o'er the Moor’ i, I met betimes my lovely Maid, In fit Retreats for wooing. 1792Burns Song, Duncan Gray, Duncan Gray cam'here to woo, Ha, ha, the wooing o't. 1867Tennyson Window 166 Here is the golden close of love, All my wooing is done. 1882Besant All Sorts xxvii, No girl likes to do her own wooing; she must be courted.
Proverbs. [1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. ii. i. 75 Pet. I would faine be doing. Gre. I doubt it not sir. But will curse Your wooing.] 1659N. R. Proverbs 24 Courting and wooing brings dallying and doing. 1670Ray Prov. 48 Happy is the woing, that is not long in doing.
b. freq. in to go, come, ride a (or † on) wooing.
c1460J. Metham Wks. (1916) 150 Yt ys spedeful that day to go a wowyng. 1595Knaresb. Wills (Surtees) I. 201 His short gowne..which he had lente to Tho. Atkinson for iij dayes to ride on woweinge with. 1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 71 What? Michael Cassio, That came a woing with you? a1611in T. Ravenscroft Melismata F 1 b, The Frogge would a woing ride. 1690Locke Govt. i. xi. §135 His Servant whom he sent a wooing for his Son. 1711Addison Spect. No. 129 ⁋10 When they go a wooing..they generally put on a red Coat. 1841Dickens Barn. Rudge iii, He went out to-day a wooing.
c. fig.
a1225Ancr. R. 116 Þis is wowunge efter Godes grome, & tollunge of his vuel. a1240O.E. Hom. I. 269 Her biginnes þe wohunge of ure lauerd. c1440Promp. Parv. 533/1 Wowynge, procacio. 1596Drayton Leg. Robt. Dk. Norm. xxvi, Except in Perill, thou do'st not appeare; Yet scarcely then, but with Intreats and Wooing. 1613W. Browne Brit. Past. i. ii. (1616) 41 My Maiden-Muse flies the lasciuious Swaines,..Will not dilate..His curious searches, his respectlesse wooings. 1856Grindon Life xviii. (1875) 218 Work is the wooing by which happiness is won.
d. attrib. and Comb., as wooing act, wooing dance, wooing day, wooing language, wooing mind, wooing suit.
1704Phil. Trans. XXIV. 1589 (2), I have plainly shewed their Ticking noise to be a *wooing Act.
1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. i. ii. 68 As wealth is burthen of my *woing dance.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 130 In loue is no lacke, no in no *wooyng day. 1878Gibbon For the King iii, The ardour of our wooing days.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. To Rdr. (end), To Gentlewomen and their Loves is consecrated all the *Wooing Language..feigned by the Muse amongst Hills and Rivers.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 412 Henceforth my *woing minde shall be exprest In russet yeas, and honest kersie noes.
1622Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 210 He comes upon a *wooing suit for the Infanta.
▪ II. wooing, ppl. a.|ˈwuːɪŋ|
[f. woo v.1 + -ing2.]
That woos. a. That solicits in love; courting, as a lover; † wanton.
1382Wyclif Prov. vii. 13 The caȝte ȝunge man she kisseth; and with wowende [1388 wowynge] chere she flatereth. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 409 [He] ordeyned wommen to serven hem..þat semede wowynge gigelottes in cloþing, face, and semblant. c1440Jacob's Well 163 Whan þou, wyth wowyng woordys, styrest oþere to þi lust, it is dedly synne. 1746Dunkin in Francis tr. Hor., Sat. ii. v. 11 The wooing Tribe, in Revellings employ'd, My Stores have lavish'd.
b. fig. Alluring, enticing.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. James iv. 1–6 He maye not abyde the wowynge worlde to bee loued. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 73 They..step back, or forward, in their wooeing wise. 1838Lytton Alice xi. iv, The letter was most courteous, most complimentary, most wooing. 1838J. C. Mangan Poems (1903) 204 Each wooing Zephyr that goes, At will from flower to flower a-maying. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion ii. iv, Be thou a wooing breeze.
Comb.a1661B. Holyday Juvenal (1673) 95 No Hæmus or soft Carpophorus appears More wooing-voic'd. |