0 present participle of court
1 to try to please someone because you want them to join you:
2 to try to get something, especially attention or support from other people:
She courts publicity by inviting journalists to extravagant parties.
3 to risk something unpleasant, especially by behaving stupidly or carelessly:
4 to have a romantic relationship with someone that you hope to marry:
In this case he was to win her over himself au (svayamevamanurajayet) by courting that began in her childhood.
Someday a philanthropist will start a centre of courting rooms.
Crucially, the increase in plausibility afforded by this analytical stance need not come at the theoretically unpalatable cost of courting determinism.
Several stages in the courting process allowed a woman the chance to reject disagreeable suitors.
If genes can ground nest-building and courting in birds, web-building in spiders, and language learning in human beings, why not polyandry or avunculocality?
Family approval for developed courting relationships regained a degree of importance in the post-war world.
For many of the informants, the music of their youth and courting had some of the strongest memories.
Courting was the ' ' normal ' ' state from say, 16, onward.
