domestic violence is a pattern of coercive controlling behavior that can include physical abuse emotional or psychological abuse sexual abuse or financial abuse using money and financial tools to exert control domestic violence is a pervasive life threatening crime that affects millions of individuals across the united states regardless of age economic status race religion or education high profile cases of domestic violence will attract headlines but thousands of people experience domestic abuse every day
Madam /ËmÃ¦dÉm/, or, as French, madame /ËmÃ¦dÉm/ or /mÉËdÉËm/, is a polite form of address for women, often contracted to ma'am /ËmÃ¦m/. The abbreviation is Mme or Mme and the plural is mesdames (abbreviated Mmes or Mmes). The term was borrowed from the French madame (French pronunciation: â[maËdam]), which means my lady.
groÂ·tesÂ·queÂ·rie. 1. The state of being grotesque; grotesqueness: A jumble of stuffed animals were packed in the bed around her ... and their innocent shapes crowded around her head in sweet, shadowed grotesquerie (Donna Tarrt).