Courtship
The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor.
The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage.
Courtliness; elegance of manners; courtesy.
Court policy; the character of a courtier; artifice of a court; court-craft; finesse.
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Courtship Quotations
They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.
Alexander Pope
Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
William Congreve
Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.
Joseph Addison
Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne
This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears.
Emily Murphy
Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.
Peter R. Grant
It's hard to learn about your parents' courtship.
Michael Reagan
Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have.
Sarah Fielding
Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.
Peter R. Grant
Throughout our courtship, Kenny told me that he had proof that Saddam Hussein was a threat because he possessed weapons of mass destruction. I told him, 'You had me at weapons.'
Renee Zellweger
Courtship Translations
courtship in German is Werbung
courtship in Spanish is cortejo
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