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Definition of Marriageability
1. Noun. Eligibility for marriage.
Definition of Marriageability
1. n. The quality or state of being marriageable.
Definition of Marriageability
1. Noun. The condition of being marriageable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Marriageability
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Marriageability
Literary usage of Marriageability
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"Nubility is the completion of adolescence; its means marriageability in the
physiological sense; it is the culmination of adolescence. ..."
2. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1894)
"... it is impossible to obtain figures for any age between fifteen and twenty,
although proper marriageability begins at about seventeen or eighteen. ..."
3. The History of Human Marriage by Edward Westermarck (1922)
"In other words, the terminology may, instead of being due to habitual cross-cousin
marriage, be simply connected with the marriageability of cross-cousins ..."
4. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"... marriageability had, of course, not been unobserved in the household of the
three daughters. ..."
5. Anomalies and curiosities of medicine by George Milbry Gould, Walter Lytle Pyle (1901)
"... 1890, says :— "The appearance of menstruation is held by the great majority
of natives of India to be evidence and proof of marriageability, ..."
6. A Dictionary of the Bible: Comprising Its Antiquities, Biography, Geography by Sir William Smith, John Mee Fuller (1893)
"... thus rendering divorce a less easy process, and furnishing the wife, in the
event of its being carried out, with a legal evidence of her marriageability ..."
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