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courted
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Court \Court\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Courted; p. pr. & vb. n. Courting.]
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To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with.
By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted.
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To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo.
If either of you both love Katharina . . . Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
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To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
--Prescott.Guilt and misery . . . court privacy and solitude.
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To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
A well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: court)
Wikipedia
Courted is a 2015 French drama film directed by Christian Vincent. It was screened in the main competition section of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival where Fabrice Luchini won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. At the 41st César Awards, Sidse Babett Knudsen won the César Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Usage examples of "courted".
Colonel De Craye assiduously courted him, was anecdotal, deferential, charmingly vivacious, the very man the Rev.
He courted me, invited me to supper, played after supper, and, having won a large sum from an Englishman whom he had decoyed to his supper by telling him that I would be present, he gave me fifty guineas, saying that he had given me an interest in his bank.
Self-love and prejudice prevent a woman yielding till she has been assidiously courted, whereas I had asked her to share my bed in an off-hand manner, as if it were a mere matter of form.
When a girl has travelling adventures, one may safely say that she has courted them, for it is easy to be discreet in all countries if one wishes.
Born on the confines of the Franks, he courted the friendship of that formidable people, by the flattering imitation of their dress and manners.
Falco was either a progressive Conservative, or a conservative Progressive, a notorious fence-sitter courted by both sides.
The ballroom was the backup venue in the event of rain, in Miles's view a terrorist plan that courted death by overheating and oxygen deprivation for most of the government of the Imperium.
A servile crowd, in which he frequently reckoned praetors and consuls, courted his smiles, pampered his avarice, applauded his follies, served his passions, and waited with impatience for his death.
The most pious females courted the permission of imprinting kisses on the fetters which they had worn, and on the wounds which they had received.
During the first years of his reign, Baronius himself is in extreme good humor with the emperor, who courted the popes, till he got them into his power.
Their laborious reigns were exercised by the popes, the crusades, and the independence of Lombardy and Germany: they courted the alliance of the Romans.
He courted her father, aware that men likewise, and parents pre-eminently, have their preference for the larger offer, the deeper pocket, the broader lands, the respectfuller consideration.
Young Crossjay, whom she considered the least able of all to act as an ally, was the only one she courted with a real desire to please him, he was the one she affectionately envied.
The ladies Eleanor and Isabel, seeing his daughter to be the cause of it, blamed her, and would have assisted him to escape, but Miss Dale, whom he courted with that object, was of the opposite faction.
It may be that you were unblushingly courted in those days, and excusable.