Hypergamous

adj

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Adjective
  1. 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."

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"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."

Etymology

From hyper- + -gamous.

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