hypergamous

comparative more hypergamous · superlative most hypergamous

1. Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting hypergamy.

   This is, in fact, an issue on which modern anthropologists have been divided, particularly among those north Indians who are held to practise hypergamous 'upward' marriage.

   1999, Susan Bayly, Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age, Cambridge University Press, published 2001, →ISBN, page 124

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   Readers can't help siding with Jane's heroines, so sympathetically portrayed in their efforts to get the right man, whereas Becky Sharp may well represent male distrust of scheming hypergamous females.

   2005, David P. Barash, Nanelle R. Barash, Madame Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature, Dell, published 2008, →ISBN, page 67

   Some Chinese citizens even praised male Chinese citizens they knew for having enough status, wealth, charm, and good looks to attract non-Chinese women, who were presumed to desire the same hypergamous relationships that Chinese women were presumed to desire.

   2011, Vanessa L. Fong, Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World, Stanford University Press, →ISBN, page 128