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Definition of Maltreater
1. Noun. Someone who abuses.
Definition of Maltreater
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Maltreater
Literary usage of Maltreater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mental Adjustments by Frederic Lyman Wells (1917)
"inconsistent with social order, but an apt illustration of the balancing process.
A drunken maltreater of wife and children develops intimacy ..."
2. Critical and Exegetical Handbook to the Acts of the Apostles by Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer (1883)
"... which presupposes a maltreater, is explained from the circumstances of the
event being so universally known.—Ver. 25. But he thought that hi» brethren ..."
3. Glasghu facies: A View of the City of Glasgow; Or, An Account of Its Origin by John M'Ure (1872)
"... Information of how they had been treated to some of the Leaders of the Crowd;
whereupon it was resolved to take instant Vengeance on the maltreater. ..."
4. Twenty Thousand Miles of Road Travel in Central and Western Europe by William John Alexander Stamer (1901)
"... cruel father: it is not abroad, but in England, to the national disgrace, that
the wife-booter and child maltreater is beheld in his most hideous form. ..."
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