courted

Romantically pursued; wooed.

How little does the situation of a courted, fashionable girl, surrounded by her admirers, and thus at liberty to give herself every impertinent air, which a vain mind,and a selfish, unfeeling heart dictate, resemble that of the unobserved, disregarded being, who night after night, follows some elderly, undistinguished chaperon through the regular round of London amusements, and, seated by her by hour after hour in dull neglect, seems at last to become a part of the bench she rests on, until reduced, perhaps, to be even envious of its insensibility!

'I think no one has been more courted than she,' she went on, 'but till quite lately she never cared seriously for anyone. […]'

Enticed by attractions from those who wish one's favor or attention.

And those circles to which a bon mot was the passport, could scarcely fail to be more agreeable than circles, in which, to be the most courted, it is sufficient to be the first-born.

At all events, their having discovered the fact was by no means to his advantage; for as my good will was of more value in the family than his, from the circumstances in which I stood in regard to the Duke, my favour was of course more courted, and it often happened that it was courted at his expense.

Encouraged; sought-after.

Now, disobedience is a self-disseverment from this mystical body—a self-subjection to the ban of the ever-blessed God—a virtual excommunication of our own spirits—a courted anathema— a forfeiture of all privileges and all graces imparted either by union with Christ or by fellowship with our brother believers.

You can have little idea how far people were carried by such ecclesiastical differences at one time—especially so in remote districts, where quarrels of the sort became a courted diversion from the sluggish monotony of uneventful lives.