unwooedadj.
(un- prefix1 2.)
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > seeking marriage > [adjective] > relating to courting or wooing > courted or wooed > not
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1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Div v/1 Vnwowed, impetitus.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets liv. sig. D4 They liue vnwoo'd, and vnrespected fade. View more context for this quotation
1806 T. S. Surr Winter in London III. i. 30 A maiden of the..kindest nature flattered me by an unwooed affection.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Recoll. Arab. Nights viii, in Poems 53 The solemn palms were ranged Above, unwooed of summer wind.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal I. iii. 96 She would have blushed..for her folly in having loved unwooed.
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