Betrothable

Origin

From betroth + -able.

Full definition of betrothable

Adjective

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.