unmatrimonial

Jarrold's movie has charms, but it has trouble finding its own voice until late in the game, when Austen's biography dictates an unmatrimonial final act.

Movies: Snap Judgment 2007

We discoursed of the lost Pleiad and the Berlin bracelets, of the five hundred people about us, and the feasibility of boiling a pot on five hundred a year — the unmatrimonial sum total of my paternal allowance.

Fun-jottings, or, Laughs I have taken a pen to 1853

"Egad, Bob, I was very good at that; but there's an unmatrimonial son of mine, Val the Vulture, there, and d-- me, when I look back upon my life, and compare it with his, it's enough to make me repent of my humanity, to think of the opportunities I have neglected."

Valentine M'Clutchy, The Irish Agent The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831