wooer

noun

1. Someone who woos or courts.

   “Penelope for her Vliſſes ſake, / Deuiz'd a VVeb her vvooers to deceaue: / in vvhich the vvorke that ſhe all day did make / the ſame at night ſhe did againe vnreaue, […]”

   “Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.”

   “She wrote such a widow-like refusal when she went from me, as might not exclude hope in any other wooer; whatever it may do in Mr. Tony Harlowe.”

   “Sally Leadbitter was vulgar-minded to the last degree; never easy unless her talk was of love and lovers; in her eyes it was an honour to have had a long list of wooers.”

   “Never hold your heart in pain / For an evil-doer; / Never flip it down the lane / To a gifted wooer.”