wife-beating

Definitions

1. 1

   Prone to physically assaulting one's wife.

   • 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.
   • The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.
2. 2

   Alternative form of wifebeating.

   • However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.
   • As previously outlined, indicators related to perceptions of wife-beating aim to test women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality.
   • Violence Against Women Grossman states clearly that wife-beating occurred in the Middle Ages in all societal classes.

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