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Suitor   /sˈutər/   Listen
noun
Suitor  n.  
1.
One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. "She hath been a suitor to me for her brother."
2.
Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover.
3.
(a)
(Law) One who sues or prosecutes a demand in court; a party to a suit, as a plaintiff, petitioner, etc.
(b)
(O. Eng. Law) One who attends a court as plaintiff, defendant, petitioner, appellant, witness, juror, or the like.





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"Suitor" Quotes from Famous Books



... sweet recollection from my heart; I would not now forget that tender scene To wear a crown, or make my girl a queen. Why need be told how pass'd the months along, How sped the summer's walk, the winter's song, How the foil'd suitor all his hopes gave up, How Providence with rapture fill'd their cup? No dark regrets, no tragic scenes to prove, The gardener was too old to die for love. A thousand incidents I cast aside To tell but one—I ...
— May Day With The Muses • Robert Bloomfield
... suitor, spare thy smiles! Her thoughts are not of thee: She better loves the salted wind, The ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 • Various
... they were apart, she was conscious only of the community of interests and sympathies that had first drawn them together. Why was it then—since his looks were of the kind generally thought to stand a suitor in good stead—that whenever they had met of late she had been subject to these rushes of obscure hostility, the half-physical, half-moral shrinking from some indefinable element in his nature against which she was constrained to defend ...
— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton
... shoulders as the good people came through the entry, or leaned against it, or felt for the latch. It is not impossible that scales from the epidermis of the trembling hand of Ann Hathaway's young suitor, Will Shakspeare, are still adherent about the old latch and door, and that they contribute to the stains we see ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, No. 20, June, 1859 • Various
... I s'pose?" said the frantic suitor. "Like me," said the other, gravely. "Now, you watch; fall in behind ...
— Sailor's Knots (Entire Collection) • W.W. Jacobs


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