wifebeating

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   The act or practice of physically assaulting one's wife.

   • That suggests that the wifebeatings in this nation are running into the many millions annually!
   • Though many states had laws by 1870 that prohibited wifebeating, the laws seem to have been enforced only weakly.
2. 2

   Alternative form of wife-beating.

   • But the Clark-Darden experiment was better: mass-racist black-cheering of a wifebeating killer's release was an invaluable wakeup-shock to even the densest traditional civil-righteous Lib.
   • So I was in a world where all the men were wifebeating drunkards and I forgot.
   • Thinly disguised as Windsor House, “the lone tower block at the end of Golborne Road”, it is where the darts-playing, wifebeating criminal Keith Talent lives in Martin Amis’s novel London Fields (1989).

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