antibattery

English

Etymology

anti- +‎ battery

Adjective

antibattery (comparative more antibattery, superlative most antibattery)

  1. Opposing or countering battery (the form of assault).
    • 1998, Elizabeth Wurtzel, Bitch: in praise of difficult women:
      Even though shelters and antibattery task forces are probably damn near useless to a woman madly in love, we go on hoping […]
    • 2000, John Stoltenberg, Refusing to be a man: essays on sex and justice:
      Among a lot of experts and activists in the antibattery movement, the evidence has generally been accepted that one of the reasons men batter is because of something called the "male sex role stereotype."
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