nubile
adjective
(of a young woman) suitable for marriage, especially in regard to age or physical development; marriageable.
nubility
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a word derived from
nubile.
Example Sentences
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Among most modern nations, the civil laws fixing the earliest date of marriage seem to have been made without any reference to physiology, or with the mistaken notion that puberty and nubility are identical.
From Plain Facts for Old and Young by John Harvey Kellogg
And an even greater period passes between this epoch and the age it is proper for a man to marry,—his age of nubility.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys
