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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

... with the unreasoned faith that to-morrow or next day a new discovery will obliterate all distinction between Man and his makings. The mind must needs be open for the reception of truth, for the rejection of prejudice; and the violence of a Samuel Butler may in the future as in the past be needed to shatter the coat of mail forged by too ...

— Unconscious Memory • Samuel Butler

... and for two months with dropsical swellings of the feet, legs, thighs, abdomen, and labia pudenda; was at the expiration of the seventh month taken in labour. On the day after her delivery the ague returned, with so much violence as to endanger her life. As soon as the fit left her, I began to give her the red bark in substance, which had the desired effect of preventing another paroxysm. She continued to recover her health for a fortnight, ...

— An Account of the Foxglove and some of its Medical Uses - With Practical Remarks on Dropsy and Other Diseases • William Withering

... familiarity, so I did not object to the toilet process, but I did most strongly object to sniffing at a bottle which she said would "freshen me up amazing." She withdrew the cork, and memories of the college laboratory struck at my brain with sudden violence on the instant. The unforgettable odour of ethyllic chloride caught at my nerves, and ...

— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman

... winter's day, I was standing in the verandah at my own home, when one of our pigeons, chased by a hawk, flew right into my face and its pursuer was so close and so heated by the chase, that it flung itself also with great violence against my head, with a scream of rage and triumph, hurting me a good deal as it dug its cruel, armed heel into my cheek. The pigeon had fluttered, stunned and exhausted to the ground, and, quick as lightning ...

— Station Amusements • Lady Barker

... with his excesses. The altered character too, of his letters in this respect cannot fail, I think, to be remarked by the reader,—there being, with an evident increase of intellectual vigour, a tone of violence and bravado breaking out in them continually, which marks the high pitch of re-action to which he had ...

— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. IV - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

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