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antibattery en · ADJ

Etymology

From anti- + battery.

Meanings

1. Opposing or countering battery (the form of assault).
   • Even though shelters and antibattery task forces are probably damn near useless to a woman madly in love, we go on hoping […] 1998, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: in praise of difficult women:
   • Among a lot of experts and activists in the antibattery movement, the evidence has generally been accepted that one of the reasons men batter is because of something called the "male sex role stereotype." 2000, John Stoltenberg, Refusing to be a man: essays on sex and justice:

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