unmarriageability

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I hardly need enumerate the reasons why that is so, but for women such reasons have included – in historical times for which we really have information -extreme poverty, divorce, unmarriageability, induced abortion, infanticide, and a shameful death by stoning.

In Which Janie Gets Banned « UDreamOfJanie 2006
I don’t think this means that those in the poor or working classes are doomed to a life of unmarriageability.

2007 March 04 « Whatever 2007
I don’t think this means that those in the poor or working classes are doomed to a life of unmarriageability.

The Privileged, Matrimonial Few « Whatever 2007