wife-beating

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat 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.”

2. isim Alternative form of wifebeating.

   “However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.”