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betrothable en · ADJ

Etymology

From betroth + -able.

Meanings

1. Fit or able to be betrothed; of marriageable age, quality, or status.
   • In most cases, punishment was meted out to compensate the woman's father for his loss of valuable (and betrothable) property rather than to console the victim. 2002, Trevor Dean, K. J. P. Lowe, Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650:
   • Though marriage was deferred until later, girls became betrothable at twenty, and all students over twenty attended the soirées. 2000, Sheri S. Tepper, Singer from the Sea:
   • The transitions from girl, to betrothable maiden, to wife, to mother and to post-menarche old woman may, or may not, be much more dramatically marked than the equivalent stages are for men, but the ceremonies mark individual status changes, [...] 1978, Paul Trevor William Baxter, Uri Almagor, Age, generation and time:

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