Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being nubile or marriageable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The state of being marriageable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property or state of being
nubile
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Examples
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Though he believed that male circumcision had vanished from southern Mozambique a long time previously, Junod described continuing female "nubility" or initiation (khomba) rites practised among the "Northern clans," a group that would have included residents of the Magude area; it was in this context, he implies, that girls were continuing to adopt a second name.
Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique 2005
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I could not be moved by Teutonic nubility, taut bellies, or thong-flossed buttocks.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I could not be moved by Teutonic nubility, taut bellies, or thong-flossed buttocks.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I could not be moved by Teutonic nubility, taut bellies, or thong-flossed buttocks.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I could not be moved by Teutonic nubility, taut bellies, or thong-flossed buttocks.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I could not be moved by Teutonic nubility, taut bellies, or thong-flossed buttocks.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I could not be moved by Teutonic nubility, taut bellies, or thong-flossed buttocks.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I could not be moved by Teutonic nubility, taut bellies, or thong-flossed buttocks.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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I could not be moved by Teutonic nubility, taut bellies, or thong-flossed buttocks.
Life As We Know It Jennifer Foote Sweeney 2008
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The approach of nubility had been more strongly marked still when Albertine, speaking of another girl whose tone was bad, said:
The Guermantes Way 2003
seanahan commented on the word nubility
see nubile for the usage.
September 12, 2008