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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Wife-beating
Synonyms for "wife-beating"
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The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.
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However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.
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As previously outlined, indicators related to perceptions of wife-beating aim to test women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality.
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