wife-beating
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."