PROSPECT HEIGHTS — “Courtship” and “dating” are not interchangeable terms, says Patrick O’Hearn, author of “Courtship of the Saints: How the Saints Met their Spouses.”
Courtship — the wooing of a woman by an amorous gentleman, sometimes through elaborate customs — has been around for a few centuries. “Dating,” by contrast, is a more recent term.
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