Adjective : The handsome and successful young man was considered eminently marriageable. ,a marriageable daughter. From Dictionary.com.
I wonder about the idea of marriageability from the man's viewpoint. From Wordnik.com. [A Genre Break - Duty and Desire] Reference
They kept it quiet because they thought it could affect the marriageability of other women in the family. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: How to Cope With Breast Cancer - September 15, 2000] Reference
Women are still judged on marriageability, and marriageability has a lot to do with keeping your mouth shut. From Wordnik.com. [Big Girls Don’t Cry] Reference
It is a traditional practice believed to enhance a girl's beauty, honor, marriageability, social status and chastity. From Wordnik.com. [DARF- A TANZANIAN DIASPORAS LED ORGANISATION IN UK MAKING AN IMPACT IN TANZANIA] Reference
They are too afraid of the repercussions for themselves and their families in terms of reputation and marriageability. From Wordnik.com. [Who Will End the Abuse?] Reference
It is nauseating that you think it is still acceptable to insult someone based on their marriageability or their lack of sexiness. From Wordnik.com. [Amanda Marcotte, into the vortex.] Reference
An important prerequisite for marriageability, apart from obedience, modesty, a good reputation and virginity, was the dowry (dota y ashugar, in Ladino). From Wordnik.com. [Turkey: Ottoman and Post Ottoman.] Reference
What is mostly meant by it is that she is a novelist of manners who writes about marriage and marriageability with the unromantic eye of a noticing, "positive" spinster. From Wordnik.com. [Ladies in Distress] Reference
Also there were often requirements that a boy prove himself a man and accumulate a bride price that delayed male marriageability five to ten years past the age when females were married. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Surplus of Males and Runaway (with the Bride-Price) Brides:] Reference
But the disparity is real: it has to do not only with demographics but also with generations 'worth of subjective judgments about marriageability, beauty, personality, comfort, compatibility, and prestige. From Wordnik.com. [Interracial Intimacy] Reference
I would never have thought we orthodox Jews would arrive at a stage where our young men of marriageability have become so one-dimensional that their superficiality and pickyness would begin to literally kill our young women. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Anorexia and The New Values of Courtship] Reference
Atheism and marriageability Avoid her mother's rolling pin!. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Looks like Mikuru now has a hope of preserving her marriageability for the future. From Wordnik.com. [AnimeBlogger.net Antenna] Reference
The job of being a ninja is a tough one, particularly if preserving your modesty and marriageability is a priority. From Wordnik.com. [Anime Nano!] Reference
She worries that many FMF sufferers are still in the shadows, either unaware, needlessly stoic or -- fearing social backlash that might even affect their marriageability -- overly secretive about it. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
I wasn’t all that up on royal marriageability, and suddenly I was out of my depth. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference
4 The claim that atheists tend to be quarrelsome and socially challenged men may reduce your marriageability. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
We see teen-aged childbirth as a tragedy because of it’s effect on the woman’s future - her marriageability, her employability, her education, her freedom, etc. From Wordnik.com. [For Many Poor Black Girls, Teen Pregnancy Is A Rational Choice] Reference
Stuffed grape leaves should be as thin as a woman’s little pinky, and the smallest meatballs are a symbol of a woman’s dexterity, commitment, and potential marriageability. From Wordnik.com. [Date and Almond Stuffed Fish] Reference
According to this system, the community being divided into groups, terms of relationship indicate not kinship in blood but tribal status in respect of marriageability; thus, the same term is used for a child's real father and for every man who might legally have become the husband of his mother, and the same term for the real mother and for every woman whom the father might have married; the children of such possible fathers and mothers are the child's brothers and sisters; all possible spouses are called a man's. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction to the History of Religions Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV] Reference
Atheism and marriageability. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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