hypergamously

comparative more hypergamously · superlative most hypergamously

1. In a hypergamous manner.

   Ravi had married hypergamously—he had married up—and Vimalesh hypogamously, down.

   2010, Patrick Smith, Somebody Else's Century: East and West in a Post-Western World, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, page 179

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   At the middle and lower levels of the status hierarchy among Kanbis and Rajputs, families faced a double financial burden of dowry payment for marrying their daughters hypergamously and bride price for marrying sons.

   2007, L. S. Vishwanath, “Female Infanticide, Property and the Colonial State”, in Tulsi Patel, editor, Sex-Selective Abortion in India: Gender, Society and New Reproductive Technologies, Sage, →ISBN, page 278

   Kamil's parents disapprove of Marilyn because her family is poor and lower class. Like Cinderella, Marilyn wants to marry hypergamously.

   2011, Jeannette Marie Mageo, Dreaming Culture: Meanings, Models, and Power in U.S. American Dreams, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 68

   “Some sugar babies will refer to themselves as not sugar babies, but that they’re just dating hypergamously,” Ms. Upadhyay said.

   2025 July 29, Jesse McKinley, quoting Srushti Upadhyay, “David Geffen’s Divorce Gives New Meaning to Hypergamy”, in The New York Times