courtship (not pre-S.;=‘wooing’ in Mer.V. II. viii. 44)
1.
courtliness of manners
LLL. V. ii. 364
“Trim gallants, full of
,”
788, AYL. III. ii. 368 (with
play on sense ‘wooing’), 2H6 I. iii. 57, Oth. II. i. 172 (Q1
“courtesies”).
2.
state befitting a
court or courtier Rom. III. iii.
34.
3.
paying of court
“to” anyone R2 I. iv. 24.