wife-beating

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English

Adjective

wife-beating (comparative more wife-beating, superlative most wife-beating)

  1. Prone to physically assaulting one's wife.
    • 2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75:
      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.
    • 2010, David Parnell, Amy Hagberg, Facing the Dragon:
      The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.

Derived terms

Noun

wife-beating (countable and uncountable, plural wife-beatings)

  1. Alternative form of wifebeating
    • 1981, Del Martin, Battered Wives, page 31:
      However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.
    • 2005, Female Genital Mutilation/cutting, page 24:
      As previously outlined, indicators related to perceptions of wife-beating aim to test women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality.
    • 2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75:
      Violence Against Women Grossman states clearly that wife-beating occurred in the Middle Ages in all societal classes.
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