What does wife-beating mean?
Wife-beating means Prone to physically assaulting one's wife..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
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.
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.
Use wife-beating when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Wife-beating means Prone to physically assaulting one's wife..
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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.
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