"wife-beating" meaning in English

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      "form": "more wife-beating",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "wife-beating question"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, David Parnell, Amy Hagberg, Facing the Dragon",
          "text": "The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Prone to physically assaulting one's wife."
      ],
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  "word": "wife-beating"
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      "form": "wife-beatings",
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        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "word": "wifebeating"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981, Del Martin, Battered Wives, page 31",
          "text": "However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Female Genital Mutilation/cutting, page 24",
          "text": "As previously outlined, indicators related to perceptions of wife-beating aim to test women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75",
          "text": "Violence Against Women Grossman states clearly that wife-beating occurred in the Middle Ages in all societal classes.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of wifebeating"
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  "word": "wife-beating"
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  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "wife-beating question"
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        "comparative"
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          "ref": "2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, David Parnell, Amy Hagberg, Facing the Dragon",
          "text": "The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Prone to physically assaulting one's wife."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wife-beating"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
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    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English nouns",
    "English uncountable nouns"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wife-beatings",
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        "plural"
      ]
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        {
          "ref": "1981, Del Martin, Battered Wives, page 31",
          "text": "However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2005, Female Genital Mutilation/cutting, page 24",
          "text": "As previously outlined, indicators related to perceptions of wife-beating aim to test women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75",
          "text": "Violence Against Women Grossman states clearly that wife-beating occurred in the Middle Ages in all societal classes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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