betrothable

English

Etymology

From betroth + -able.

Adjective

betrothable (comparative more betrothable, superlative most betrothable)

  1. Fit or able to be betrothed; of marriageable age, quality, or status.
    • 1978, Paul Trevor William Baxter, Uri Almagor, Age, generation and time:
      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, [...]
    • 2000, Sheri S. Tepper, Singer from the Sea:
      Though marriage was deferred until later, girls became betrothable at twenty, and all students over twenty attended the soirées.
    • 2002, Trevor Dean, K. J. P. Lowe, Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650:
      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.
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