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Swedish
Etymology
heder (“honor”) + -s- (“violence”)
Noun
hedersvåld n
- honor violence (violence against someone, usually a woman, perceived as lessening family honor through breaking cultural norms of (sexual) behavior, especially of some Middle Eastern and South Asian cultural practices)
Declension
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