courtship
Example Sentences
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In these verses, Hardy returns to their courtship in Cornwall, their later estrangement and Emma’s solitary last drive when “you passed the spot / Where eight days later you were to lie.”
Pregnancy, nursing, sperm production, courtship behavior, and parental care all consume large amounts of energy.
From Science Daily
It is an easy act of courtship, such as buying flowers for a lover, but one whose love you already feel secure in.
Gen Z has strong feelings about the stylistic imbalance that can doom a courtship; ‘It felt like a smack in the face.’
Some attribute it to Austen’s role in ushering in the rom-com, and perfecting the “marriage plot” in her courtship novels.
From Los Angeles Times
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