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• One who courts or solicits in love; a suitor or lover.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

• A man who solicits a woman to become his wife; a man who courts; a suitor.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.