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persistent cruelty

British

noun

law conduct causing fear of danger to the life or health of a spouse (used in matrimonial proceedings before magistrates)

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In the anguish of her disappointment she remembered that this was the man who, by his persistent cruelty, had driven her love into exile.

From Bob, Son of Battle by Ollivant, Alfred

I have a daughter—the lawful heiress of the Kurston lands—whom my wife drove, by subtle and persistent cruelty, from her home.

From Winter Evening Tales by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

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