hypergamy
noun
the practice among Hindu women of marrying into a caste at least as high as their own.
hypergamous
-
a word derived from
hypergamy.
Example Sentences
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His marriage to her was hypergamous, with her lifting him up socially.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2020
Occasionally intermarriage between two castes takes place on a hypergamous basis; thus Rājpūts are said to take daughters from the highest clans of the cultivating caste of Dāngis.
From The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell
