夏目漱石：「心」　"勧まない"


The passage in question is this:

> 友達はかねてから国元にいる親たちに勧まない結婚を強いられていた。

Now, I recognize that kanji from 勧める, so I'm inclined to think this passage
means "For some time, my friend had been pressured by his parents back home
for his unadvised marriage" or something like that, but Denshi Jisho doesn't
come back with any results for すすまる, and I've not encountered it elsewhere, so
I'm mostly inferring this from the kanji and context.




> 「勧{すす}まない」＝「進{すす}まない」

This book is from a century ago: therefore, some of the kanji choices just
look "different" from what one might expect by today's standards.

According to
[大辞林](https://kotobank.jp/word/%E9%80%B2%E3%82%80-541845#E5.A4.A7.E8.BE.9E.E6.9E.97.20.E7.AC.AC.E4.B8.89.E7.89.88),
one of the definitions listed for 「進む」 reads:

> ⑧ ある事をしようという気力{きりょく}・意欲{いよく}が出てくる。積極的{せっきょくてき}になる。
>
> = "to be willing to do something actively"

So, 「勧まない/進まない」 means the opposite of that. Thus,

> 「勧まない結婚」 means "a marriage that one is unwilling to go through with"

