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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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... imagined herself a horse. A fairly level green place, where she could race up and down and whinny and snort and roll was about all she demanded of life; though she had a doll—a sort of a horse's doll—which at the end of a halter went bounding after her during long afternoons of violence. ...

— Dwellers in Arcady - The Story of an Abandoned Farm • Albert Bigelow Paine

... may protect himself from violence," the Colonel answered soberly, "and yet do his duty. What he may not do—is this. He may not go out to kill another in cold blood, for a point of honour, or for revenge, or to sustain what he has already ...

— The Wild Geese • Stanley John Weyman

... denied Lorenzo absolution, that he left him without a word at the brink of the grave but when he himself came to die by the horrible, barbaric means he had invoked in a boast, he did not show the fortitude of the Magnificent. Full of every sort of rebellion and violence, he made anarchy in Florence, and scoffed at the Holy See, while he was a guest of the one and the officer of the other. His bonfires of "vanities," as he called them, were possibly as disastrous for Florence as the work of the Puritan ...

— Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa • Edward Hutton

... founded at Philadelphia in 1870, to secure by violence the complete emancipation of Ireland from ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... pistol.] See, I do not come unprepared even for violence. I will brave all things—thy husband and all his race— for thy sake. Thus, then, I ...

— The Lady of Lyons - or Love and Pride • Edward Bulwer Lytton

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