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violence |
3 definitions found 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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