wife-beating

comparative more wife-beating · superlative most wife-beating

1. Prone to physically assaulting one's wife.

   The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.

   2010, David Parnell, Amy Hagberg, Facing the Dragon

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   The Mishnah's mention of injuries inflicted on a woman by a man can refer to an assailant outside the family and to inadvertent assault, but the phrase surely includes a wife-beating husband, too.

   2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75

plural wife-beatings

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of wifebeating.

   Violence Against Women Grossman states clearly that wife-beating occurred in the Middle Ages in all societal classes.

   2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75

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   However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.

   1981, Del Martin, Battered Wives, page 31

   As previously outlined, indicators related to perceptions of wife-beating aim to test women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality.

   2005, Female Genital Mutilation/cutting, page 24