unweddedness

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

unwedded +‎ -ness

Noun[edit]

unweddedness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being unwedded.
    • 1830, Thomas Carlyle, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter:
      It is not always our duty to marry, but it always is our duty to abide by right, not to purchase happiness by loss of honour, not to avoid unweddedness by untruthfulness.
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