English Explanatory Dictionary

maritodespotism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Ruthless domination of one spouse by another (often domination of a wife by a husband) in a marriage.

Word forms

maritodespotism

Etymology

From marito-, an apparently otherwise-nonexistent combining form of marital, + despotism.

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