battered woman syndrome

noun

Definitions

  1. A legal defense according to which a female murderer had no choice but to kill her…

    A legal defense according to which a female murderer had no choice but to kill her violent partner in response to cumulative abuse rather than a single provocation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for battered woman syndrome. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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