abusiveness
61abusively — abusive ► ADJECTIVE 1) extremely offensive and insulting. 2) involving cruelty and violence. DERIVATIVES abusively adverb abusiveness noun …
62diatribe — [16] Diatribe’s connotations of acrimoniousness and abusiveness are a relatively recent (19th century) development. Originally in English it meant simply ‘learned discourse or disquisition’. It comes via Latin diatriba from Greek diatribé ‘that… …
63abusive — [ə byo͞o′siv; ] also [, ə byo͞o′ziv] adj. [Fr abusif < L abusivus < abusus: see ABUSE] 1. involving or characterized by abuse or misuse; abusing; mistreating 2. coarse and insulting in language; scurrilous; harshly scolding abusively adv.… …
64abusive — adj. 1 using or containing insulting language. 2 (of language) insulting. Derivatives: abusively adv. abusiveness n …
65ANTISEMITISM — ANTISEMITISM, a term coined in 1879, from the Greek ἁντί = anti, and Σημ = Semite by the German agitator wilhelm marr to designate the then current anti Jewish campaigns in Europe. Antisemitism soon came into general use as a term denoting all… …
66JELINEK, ELFRIEDE — (1946– ), Austrian novelist and playwright. Jelinek grew up in Vienna in a working class family. Although her father was of Czech Jewish origin, Jelinek attended a Catholic kindergarten and then a convent school. During this time she studied… …
