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noun

Violence n.

The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. "That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me." "All the elements At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this conflict."

Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault. "Do violence to do man." "We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge." "Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence."

Ravishment; rape; constupration.

To do violence on, to attack; to murder. "She... did violence on herself."

To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions.

Synonyms: Vehemence; outrage; fierceness; eagerness; violation; infraction; infringement; transgression; oppression.

verb

Violence v. t. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Violence'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Violence" Quotes from Famous Books

... at Dot and the suggester of violence looked apprehensively at Jorkins; but Dot was too full to bother with them, and went on: "Mr. Freake will be delighted, sir, and so will Miss Waynflete. They're always talking of you. Come along, sir! Allow me to ...

— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough

... customary deviation therefrom. Numberless ingenious theories have been advanced from time to time by untold thousands of exasperated patrons of the line; opinions of all colors, all temperatures, all degrees of light and shade have been volunteered, many with a violence that lends conviction, but all in vain. The thing remains as secret, as recondite, as baffling as ever. Good Bostonians regard attempts to solve the problem as not only futile but impertinent—almost blasphemous—accepting it as a factor in the general ...

— White Ashes • Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. Noble

... deferential tone, "and I heartily wish you had a garrison; but where is your command, Captain Helm?" Then it was that the doughty Captain let loose the accumulated profanity with which he had been for some time well-nigh bursting. He tiptoed in order to curse with extremest violence. His gestures were threatening. He shook his fists at Father Beret, without ...

— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson

... wicked. For there are no bands in their death, but their strength is firm. They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. Their eyes stand out with fatness, they have more than heart could wish. They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression; they speak loftily. They set their ...

— God's Plan with Men • T. T. (Thomas Theodore) Martin

... seeking to recover the control, and the imposition of a tax coming home to all men except actual beggars, and filling serfdom's cup of bitterness to overflowing, supplied the opportunity, and the insurrection broke out. Its violence fell short of that of the French Jacquerie a quarter of a century earlier; but no doubt could exist as to its critical importance. As it happened, the revolt turned with special fury against the possessions of the Duke of Lancaster, whose sympathies with the ...

— Chaucer • Adolphus William Ward

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