wooer

noun

Etymology: From woo + -er; from Middle English wowere, from Old English wōgere, from wōgian (“to woo”).

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.”