wife-beating
English
editAdjective
editwife-beating (comparative more wife-beating, superlative most wife-beating)
- Prone to physically assaulting one's wife.
- 2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75:
- 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.
- 2010, David Parnell, Amy Hagberg, Facing the Dragon:
- The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.
Derived terms
editNoun
editwife-beating (countable and uncountable, plural wife-beatings)
- Alternative form of wifebeating
- 1981, Del Martin, Battered Wives, page 31:
- However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.
- 2005, Female Genital Mutilation/cutting, page 24:
- As previously outlined, indicators related to perceptions of wife-beating aim to test women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality.
- 2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75:
- Violence Against Women Grossman states clearly that wife-beating occurred in the Middle Ages in all societal classes.