Definition of "woo"

Soo leue we syr Launcelot lyenge within that caue in grete payne / and euery day ther came a lady & brouȝt hym his mete & his drynke / & wowed hym to haue layne by hym / and euer the noble knyghte syre Launcelot sayd her nay."So leave we Sir Launcelot lying within that cave in great pain; and every day there came a lady and brought him his meat and his drink, and wooed him, to have lain by him; and ever the noble knight, Sir Launcelot, said her nay."

1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur Book XIX, Chapter viii, leaf 393v

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; […]

1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […]; 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Field, […], 1594, [verse 17], lines

Each, like the Grecian artist, wooes / The image he himself has wrought.

1718, Matthew Prior, epistle to Charles Montagu.

Thee Chauntreſs oft the Woods among, / I woo to hear thy eeven Song;

a. 1645, John Milton, “Il Penseroso”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, page 39

I woo the wind / That still delays his coming.

a. 1850, William Cullen Bryant, Summer Wind

It will be a tragedy if further enterprises of this kind—for example, the one proposed between South Wales, Bristol and the South Coast via Salisbury—are now deferred until they, too, are realised too late to make an impact on a public that is too firmly wedded to the roads to be wooed back to the trains.

1962 April, “Death from Natural Causes?”, in Modern Railways, page 218

Physics hasn't been "looking" at it, certain men who embrace the Copenhagen Interpretation rather than Many Worlds or the Pilot Wave angles are resorting to woo.

2020 February 13, LinuxGal, “Atheists claim a 'thing' happened.”, in alt.atheism‎ (Usenet), message-ID <alpine.DEB.2.21.2002150505580.3311@teresita-Latitude-D630>