mariturient

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mariturient (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, rare) Desiring to marry.
    • 29 April, 1765, Thomas Gray, letter to Dr. Wharton
      Our friend the Precentor, who has so long been in a mariturient way, is not yet married, and I doubt, it is all gone off.