| 单词 | battered wife |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbattered wife battered wife n. a woman who has been repeatedly injured or otherwise ill-treated by her partner. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > married woman > [noun] > wife > wife ill-treated by partner battered wife1973 1973 Nursing Times 14 June 777/1 Erin Pizzey is always hot under the collar about the lack of help a battered wife can get. 1980 Ld. Denning Due Process of Law vii. iv. 224 By a short Act entitled the Domestic Violence Act 1976 it [sc. Parliament] enabled the County Courts to grant injunctions to protect a ‘battered wife’ even though the house was in the husband's sole name. < as lemmas |
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