adv. [f. WOOING ppl. a. + -LY2.] In a wooing manner.

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  † 1.  Wantonly, impudently. Obs.

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1382.  Wyclif, Prov. xxi. 29. The vnpitous man wowendeli [1383 vnschamefastli, Vulg. procaciter] stablith his chere.

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1552.  Huloet, Wowingly, procaciter.

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  2.  Enticingly, alluringly.

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1605.  Shaks., Macb., I. vi. 6. The Heauens breath Smells wooingly here.

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1824.  Miss Ferrier, Inher., lxxxi. I perhaps did not go so wooingly to work as some one more designing would have done.

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1849.  Miss Mulock, Ogilvies, xl. It came over her senses wooingly.

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1884.  Mrs. C. Praed, Zéro, viii. The air kissed wooingly.

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  3.  Like a wooer; with amatory speeches.

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1868.  ‘Holme Lee,’ B. Godfrey, xvi. He was … whispering … wooingly.

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