Unmarried
[ʌn'mærɪd] or [,ʌn'mærɪd]
Definition
(adj.) not married or related to the unmarried state; 'unmarried men and women'; 'unmarried life'; 'sex and the single girl'; 'single parenthood'; 'are you married or single?' .
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Definition
adj. not married.—adjs. Unmarr′iable (obs.) not marriageable; Unmarr′iageable not fit to marry not yet old enough to be married.—n. Unmarr′iageableness.—v.t. Unmarr′y to dissolve the marriage of.
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Examples
- And what does it signify whether unmarried and never-to-be-married women are unattractive and inelegant or not? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Any woman that dies unmarried is looked upon to die in a state of reprobation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- St. John is unmarried: he never will marry now. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- From examining his military papers he knew the boy was from Tafalla in Navarra, twenty-one years old, unmarried, and the son of a blacksmith. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But the Subalterns' and Captains' ladies (the Major is unmarried) cabal against her a good deal. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My brother, being yet unmarried, did not keep house, but boarded himself and his apprentices in another family. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Young unmarried girls always do, if they are in a house together for ten days. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They are fast married, and can't be unmarried. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Sam Weller kept his word, and remained unmarried, for two years. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She and Janey knew every fold of the Beaufort mystery, but in public Mrs. Archer continued to assume that the subject was not one for the unmarried. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- A married woman grabs at her baby; an unmarried one reaches for her jewel-box. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- So I told him he might still address me as an unmarried lady, though if I hadn't been so particular, I'd had good chances of matrimony. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gypsy obscenity? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But between _us_, I am convinced there never can be any likeness, except in being unmarried. Jane Austen. Emma.
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