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marryable en · ADJ

Etymology

From marry + -able.

Meanings

1. (alt-of, alternative) Alternative spelling of marriable.
   alt of marriable
   • He had done his best to look like one of Kurt's friends, but one of the nice ones, one of the marryable ones, and De Courcy's best was a sophisticated one. 1998, Russell Smith, “Section 16”, in Noise, Porcupine's Quill, →ISBN, page 193:
   • The girl smiled up into his face: "And in all sincerity I will say that in all your life you have never seemed so—so marryable as you do right now." 1918, James B. Hendryx, “Chapter XVI”, in The Texan: A Story of the Cattle Country, A. L. Burt Company, →ISBN, page 309:
   • The great and embarrassing disappointment of my life thus far has been the not getting married thing. [...] I still want it so much. And if that sounds crazy to some, since I'm currently thirty-three and still very marryable, it may help to know the expectations in the conservative Christian world in which I was raised. 2007, Lori Smith, “Incense and Blooms”, in A Walk with Jane Austen, WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 78:
   • "And your fair niece, whom I once met... Ah, is she still sans husband? She should hurry. [...] I always thought her eminently marryable, however." 2004, James Wood, The Book Against God, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

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