woo

verb3

1. •
   to try to win someone's love or support by being nice to them

   • They're trying to woo the customers back with this new mobile plan.
2. •
   Often of a man, to try to persuade (someone) to be in an amorous relationship with.

   • I haue beene wooed, as I intreat thee now, / Euen by the sterne, and direfull God of warre, / VVhose sinowie necke in battel nere did bow, / VVho conquers where he comes in euery iarre; […] — 1594
3. •
   To court solicitously; to invite with importunity; to solicit in love.

   • Thee Chauntress oft the Woods among, / I woo to hear thy eeven Song — 1645