hypergamously

Adverb

1. In a hypergamous manner.
   • 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. -...
   • 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:
   • 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...