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adjective

Violent adj.

1.

Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. "Float upon a wild and violent sea." "A violent cross wind from either coast."

2.

Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech. "To bring forth more violent deeds." "Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life."

3.

Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal. "These violent delights have violent ends." "No violent state can be perpetual." "Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void."

Violent presumption (Law), presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.

Violent profits (Scots Law), rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.

Synonyms: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.

noun

Violent n. An assailant. (Obs.)

verb

Violent v. t. To urge with violence. (Obs.)

Violent v. i. To be violent; to act violently. (Obs.) "The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And violenteth in a sense as strong As that which causeth it."

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Etymology of 'Violent'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Violent" Quotes from Famous Books

... Presently these simmered down to a residue of angry amazement and curiosity. If you have been accustomed all your life to regard yourself as an empress of absolute dominance over slavish masculinity, and are suddenly subjected to a violent slap across the face from the hand of the most highly favored slave, some allowance is due you of outraged sensibilities. Chiefly, however Esme wondered WHY. WHY, in large capitals, and with ...

— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... expressive of violent excitement, whether in respect of rage, or of folly, or of pride; borrowed, perhaps, from the fury of an untamed beast, which cannot be so long held that it may be bound with ...

— The Proverbs of Scotland • Alexander Hislop

... wait to hear what the pastor said, but crushed his felt hat on to his head and started for a violent walk. He would go through Kleinwalde, past the house; he would haunt the woods; he would wait about. It was a hot, gusty May afternoon, and the wind that had been quiet so long was blowing up the dust in clouds; but he hurried along regardless of heat and ...

— The Benefactress • Elizabeth Beauchamp

... words can convey. Still I retained pride, if not courage; and in my own mind I said, "This is horror, but it is not fear; unless I fear I cannot be harmed; my reason rejects this thing, it is an illusion—I do not fear." With a violent effort I succeeded at last in stretching out my hand towards the weapon on the table: as I did so, on the arm and shoulder I received a strange shock, and my arm fell to my side powerless. And now, to add to my horror, the light began slowly to wane ...

— The Best Ghost Stories • Various

... slowly and with an exquisite softness, something in his voice, manner, or words aroused a sudden and violent antipathy in Moretti's mind. He became curiously annoyed, without any possible cause, and out of ...

— The Master-Christian • Marie Corelli

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