unmarriageableadj.

1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. ix. sig. D/1 Cities are raced, virgins and vnmariageable maydens [L. innubiles puellæ] are shamefully deflowred, all honestie is vtterlie violated.

1729 G. Jacob New Law-dict. Anni Nubiles, when a Woman is under 12 Years of Age, her Age to marry, she is said to be infra annos nubiles, and unmarriageable.

1787 W. Thomson tr. A. Cunningham Hist. Great Brit. I. iii. 121 Their women are seldom married young; and are indeed long unmarriageable.

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

1880 Harper's Mag. July 301/1 You have always had a little way of alluding to her as an unmarriageable girl.

1918 J. G. Frazer Folk-lore in Old Test. II. ii. vi. 98 There has hitherto been no special name for the unmarriageable cousins, the children of two brothers or of two sisters.

1950 Internat. Affairs 26 301 It would be absurd to complain that they have not given us two large and probably unmarriageable books in one.

2013 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 14 Jan. 3 Cheap ultrasound technology and selective abortions..had pushed down the proportion of female babies to historic lows, making millions of men unmarriageable.