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Violent   /vˈaɪələnt/  /vˈaɪlənt/   Listen
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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"Violent" Quotes from Famous Books



... was violent. A momentary wildness, such as I had formerly witnessed, flashed in her eyes; she started from her seat, griped my hand, then bursting into tears exclaimed—'Oh Mr. Trevor!' and dropped ...
— The Adventures of Hugh Trevor • Thomas Holcroft
... latter spot. I found Belle seated by a fire, over which her kettle was suspended. During my absence she had prepared herself a kind of tent, consisting of large hoops covered over with tarpaulins, quite impenetrable to rain, however violent. 'I am glad you are returned,' said she, as soon as she perceived me; 'I began to be anxious about you. Did you ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... and gave me such a violent jerk that I nearly rolled over. I looked round. At the edge of the wood a hare had just come into view, with one ear bent down and the other one sharply pricked, The blood rushed to my head, and I forgot everything else as I shouted, slipped the dog, and rushed ...
— Childhood • Leo Tolstoy
... to the child, in case he turns violent; but I don't think he will—I don't think ...
— Quicksilver - The Boy With No Skid To His Wheel • George Manville Fenn
... sleeping mother, she quickly left the room, closing the door carefully behind her. With a palpitating heart she leaned over the balustrade; was it a false alarm, after all? The next instant there was a violent pull at the bell, as startling in the dead of the night as some supernatural summons. Before Ruth could hurry down, Nora, looking greatly bewildered, came out of her room and rushed to the door. In a trice she was ...
— Other Things Being Equal • Emma Wolf


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