Unmarriageable

a. (UN-¹ 7 b.)

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[1775. Ash.]

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1787. W. Thomson, trans. A. Cunningham’s Hist. Gt. Brit., I. 121. Their women are seldom married young: and are indeed long unmarriageable.

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1841. Emerson, Method Nature (1844), 14. He was hurled into being as … the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts.

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1856. S. Dobell, Lyrics War Time, German Legion. I could kneel down by thee, And o’er thy chill unmarriageable rest Cry [etc.].

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