Definition of "love-suit" [love-suit]

• Courtship; solicitation of union in marriage. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Palestine, with liberty to fight under your honoured banner, and permission from time to time to recommend my love-suit to Bertha, the attendant of the Countess of Paris, and the hope that it may find favour in the eyes of her noble lord and lady."
• "But whether this frequent glide into her company was meant as ephemeral flirtation, to fill the half-hours of his journey, or whether it meant a serious love-suit — which were the only alternatives that had occurred to her on the subject — did not trouble her now."
• "Thus everything was going wrong at Greshamsbury — with the one exception of Mr Oriel and his love-suit."