wife-beatings

Adjective

wife-beating (comparative more wife-beating, superlative most wife-beating)

1. 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.2009, Frederick E. Greenspahn, Women and Judaism: New Insights and Scholarship, page 75