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nuˈbility
[f. nubile a.1 + -ity: cf. F. nubilité (1750), It. nubilita, Sp. nubilidad.]
Capability for marriage. (Properly on the part of females.)
1813W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXI. 131 When the age of nubility approached. 1857Bullock tr. Cazeaux's Midwifery 82 Its first appearance..constitutes one of the earliest signs of puberty or nubility. 1889D. J. Matthews Clin. Lect. Dis. Wom. xxi. (ed. 4) 169 The old and wisest counsels as to the nubility of men and women. |