Maltreatment

Meaning

Noun

●

Cruel or

treatment or

; mistreatment.

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Origin

maltreatment

English

mal-

English

mal-

Old French (842-ca. 1400)

treatment

English

-ment

English

-amentum

Latin

treat

English

treter

Anglo-Norman

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