marriageability
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marriageability (uncountable)
- The condition of being marriageable.
- 1992, Toni Morrison, Jazz, Vintage (2016), page 76:
- At fifty-eight with no children of her own [...] she wondered about the hysteria, the violence, the damnation of pregnancy without marriageability.
- 2012, John Mullan, What Matters in Jane Austen?: Twenty Crucial Puzzles Solved, page 15:
- Three years might make a big difference to a woman's marriageability.
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condition of being marriageable
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