uberous

(ˈjuːbərəs)

adj

archaic fertile; abundant; fruitful

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(204) UNICEF has concluded that the uberous incidence of violence against women by men is "predicated upon economic dependency, acculturation to sex roles, and legal and political inequality." (205) Authorities suggest that in America between two and four million women are battered each year (206) and that spouse abuse occurs once every eighteen seconds.

Reconceptualizing domestic violence in international law

His prose explanation, "The women give their Infants sucke as they hang on their backes, the uberous dugge stretched over her shoulder," is very reminiscent of a like-minded assertion about "meere Irish" women made by Fynes Moryson, who reports that the women "have very great Dugges, some so big as they give their Children suck over theire shoulders."(33)

"Hottentot": The Emergence of an Early Modern Racist Epithet

Three boats - the Uberous, the Modulas and the Fairwind - are being held at the Dorset port of Weymouth.

Five Scots skippers face fines of pounds 50,000

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