Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being marriageable.
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- noun
marriageability
Etymologies
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marriageable + -ness
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Examples
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Inger thought with a certain displeasure of that same marriageableness, thinking, maybe, how she had once been the same herself.
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Among artists his position was not irregular, because with them his marriageableness was not an issue.
The song of the lark 1915
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Among artists his position was not irregular, because with them his marriageableness was not an issue.
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Among artists his position was not irregular, because with them his marriageableness was not an issue.
The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910
bilby commented on the word marriageableness
See quotation on Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen.
June 21, 2011