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Definition of Courted
1. court [v] - See also: court
Lexicographical Neighbors of Courted
Literary usage of Courted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Commonwealth of England: From Its Commencement, to the by William Godwin (1828)
"We have seen that, from the commencement of his protectorship, he was incessantly
courted by the rival governments of France and ..."
2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"But as we are not courted when in adversity, by the same rule let a man also
submit tu be slighted by tin; prosperous ; or let him treat the ..."
3. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1801)
"... and courted by all ... Army alone courted by him.—f-fc, favours and joins the
moderate Party. ..."
4. The Bagford Ballads: Illustrating The Last Years of the Stuarts by John Bagford, Joseph Woodfall Ebsworth (1878)
"It is bere called "When Aurelia first [I courted]." Words and music of the song
thus commencing are given in Playford's Choice Ayres, 1676, i. ..."
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