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hypergamously

hypergamously adverb: in a hypergamous manner.

Adverb

hypergamously (comparative more hypergamously, superlative most hypergamously)

  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.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...
    • 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

Examples of hypergamously in a sentence

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

Forms of hypergamously

comparativemore hypergamously
superlativemost hypergamously

Origin of hypergamously

From hypergamous + -ly.

Questions about hypergamously

What does hypergamously mean?
Hypergamously means in a hypergamous manner.
How do you use hypergamously in a sentence?
Like Cinderella, Marilyn wants to marry hypergamously.
What part of speech is hypergamously?
Hypergamously is an adverb.

Words near hypergamously in the dictionary

  1. hypergammaglobulinemia
  2. hypergammaglobulinemias
  3. hypergammaglobulinemic
  4. hypergammaglobulinæmia
  5. hypergamous
  6. hypergamously
  7. hypergamy
  8. hyperganglionosis
  9. hypergargalesthesia
  10. hypergargantuan
  11. hypergastrinaemia

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