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maltreatment|mælˈtriːtmənt|
Also 8 male-treatment.
[ad. F. maltraitement, f. maltraiter: see maltreat v. and -ment.]
The action of maltreating; the state of being maltreated.
1721Amherst Terræ Fil. Pref. (1754) 14 Nature will sometimes rebel against principle, when it is long and grievously provoked by male-treatment and oppression. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. viii. 140 If the beating or other maltreatment be very enormous..the law then gives him a separate remedy. 1816Coleridge Lay Serm. (1817) 379 [They] after much contumely..and cruel mal-treatment on all sides, rushed out of the pile. 1845Carlyle Cromwell I. i. 8 From this source has proceeded our maltreatment of it [the 17th cent.], our miseditings, miswritings [etc.]. 1882J. Hawthorne Fort. Fool i. xxxv, Thus had his deliberate maltreatment of another man's soul resulted in the loss of his own moral free-will. |