marriageable
Speech parts
1. marriageable - Noun
2. marriageable - Adjective
3. marriageable - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable.
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Mothers with marriageable daughters ought to look out for men of this stamp, men with brains to act as protecting divinity, with worldly wisdom to diagnose like a surgeon, and with experience to take a mother's place in warding off evil. These are the three cardinal virtues in matrimony.
Both Elvira and her guardian Friederich had died in 1866, and Suttner, now above typical marriageable age, felt increasingly constrained by her mother's eccentricity and the family's poor financial circumstances.
Commire, Klezmer 229. Critical reception Written in epistolary form, Evelina portrays the English upper middle class from the perspective of a 17-year-old woman who has reached marriageable age.
In jurisdictions where the marriageable age is lower than the age of consent, those laws usually override the age of consent laws in the case of a married couple where one or both partners are below the age of consent.
In these jurisdictions, it is illegal to have sexual intercourse outside of marriage so the de facto age of consent is the marriageable age.
Lévi-Strauss included this in his conceptualization of the universal structures of the mind, which he held to operate based on pairs of binary oppositions such as hot-cold, male-female, culture-nature, cooked-raw, or marriageable vs. tabooed women.