wooingly
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
In a wooing manner; enticingly; with persuasiveness or seduction.
Example Sentences
- "Smells wooingly here; no jutty, frieze,"
- ""Yes," I cried, startled at her candor, "to win your love." Hope slowly rekindled within my breast, and then with half-closed eyes, and wooingly, she said: "No drooping Clytie could be more constant than I to him who strikes the chord that is responsive in my soul.""
- "'Sing to me, Bernardino,' she whispered wooingly, 'sith the cloud is gone from our moon, and I am in the will to love.'"
Etymology
From wooing + -ly.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more wooingly (comparative)
most wooingly (superlative)