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wife-beating en · ADJ

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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:
   • 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:

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wife-beating question

wife-beating en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of wifebeating.
   alt 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:
   • 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:
   • 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:

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