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Definitions for: Violence
[n] an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"
[n] the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
[n] a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
Webster (1913) Definition: Vi"o*lence, n. [F., fr. L. violentia. See Violent.]
1. 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.
--Shak.
All the elements At least had gone to wrack,
disturbed and torn With the violence of this
conflict. --Milton.
2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect,
reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement;
unjust force; outrage; assault.
Do violence to do man. --Luke iii.
14.
We can not, without offering violence to all
records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge.
--T. Burnet.
Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with
violence. --Milton.
3. Ravishment; rape; constupration.
To do violence on, to attack; to murder. ``She . . . did
violence on herself.'' --Shak.
To do violence to, to outrage; to injure; as, he does
violence to his own opinions.
Syn: Vehemence; outrage; fierceness; eagerness; violation;
infraction; infringement; transgression; oppression.
Vi"o*lence, v. t.
To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
[Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, force, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness
See Also: aggression, hostility, intensity, intensiveness, public violence, rage, riot, Sturm und Drang, turbulence, upheaval
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