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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Violence \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Violence \Vi"o*lence\, v. t.
To assault; to injure; also to bring by violence; to compel.
[Obs.] --B. Jonson
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
violence
n 1: 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" [syn:
{force}]
2: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's
violence" [syn: {ferocity}, {fierceness}, {furiousness}, {fury},
{vehemence}, {wildness}]
3: a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc
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