unmarriageable

comparative more unmarriageable · superlative most unmarriageable

1. Not marriageable, unsuitable for marriage.

   You have always had a little way of alluding to her as an unmarriageable girl.

   1880, Henry James, chapter VI, in Washington Square, Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 50

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   He had a way of pronouncing the word "miss" that made it an epithet, a sneer at her unmarried and unmarriageable state.

   1912, David Graham Phillips, The Price She Paid, Gutenberg, published 2008

2. That cannot be reconciled, inconsistent.

   […] which is a very curious cross between two things that at first sight may seem unmarriageable, the Wordsworthian enthusiasm and the Byronic despair.

   1902, George Saintsbury, Matthew Arnold, Gutenberg, published 2005

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   A link was wanting between two craving parts of nature, and he was hurled into being as the bridge over that yawning need, the mediator betwixt two else unmarriageable facts.

   1841, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature