She was in a position to control judgements about marriageability.

A large focus of the entire dating process needs to be on your own "marriageability."

Status within the family was based on age, gender, relationships by blood, or marriageability.

The amount of a woman's dowry once determined her marriageability.

Women and girls who have been raped often try to keep the fact a secret since not being a virgin reduces their marriageability.

So the marriageability of African Americans is going up, economically and socially."

While much attention has been given to the marriageability of single black women, the truth is, not every woman is interested in traditional relationships and marriage.

This rationale aims to preserve the marriageability of the girl and to prevent unwanted teenage pregnancy.

Being raped is considered shameful in Haitian society, and victims may find themselves abandoned by loved ones or with reduced marriageability.

The notion of marriageability is typically part of the definition of almah.

'She wanted my opinion on his marriageability.'

This was due to both the 'surplus' of women and conventions regarding the marriageability of older women.

So let's discuss marriageability.

It's not genital mutilation but it's ultimately a concern with outward appearance for the sake of marriageability.

Maybe you didn't even think that "marriageability" was a quality, let alone a quantifiable one, beyond, perhaps: "brushes teeth, occasionally has a bath, all else subjective."

Slapping a nubile girl on the edge of marriageability offended against additional etiquettes and susceptibilities, connoted sexual assault, even sexual rights.

The industriousness, and consequently the marriageability, of young girls was once judged by their diligence at grinding cornmeal and their skill at making paper bread.

She reports that the best strategy for marketing Ponds is to tap into young women's desire for a man - essentially, that Ponds will improve their marriageability.

Marriage and one's marriageability tend to be presented here with a strange combination of pragmatic formality combined with hysterical fetishisation that Bolick perhaps inadvertently captured in her piece.

Research suggests that the practice persists because of a belief that circumcision will moderate female sexuality, and so assure subsequent 'marriageability', and that it is religiously sanctioned.

At that time a woman's reputation had to be protected at all costs as her future marriageability depended on it; Joseph was aware of this and secured Anne from gossip.

But Miss Jain's family customarily allowed its daughters only a brief pre-engagement glimpse of the men they were to wed; a girl's reputation, essential to her marriageability, had to be carefully guarded.

In "The New Insecurity," the philosopher Jerald Wallulis argues that we are changing from a society that values employment and marriage to one that values employability and marriageability.

Men are specially targeted for educational campaigns since a lot of reasons for continuing the practice is based on ideals encouraged by men such as marriageability, faithfulness, and the desire for virgin brides.

Both Samantha and Miranda value their independence more than Charlotte, whose focus in the course of the series has been first the marriageability of her boyfriends ("I've been dating since I was 15 - where is he?"