Violence

Definition of Violence

Vi´o`lence

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.

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.

Ravishment; rape; constupration.

To do violence on
to attack; to murder.

To do violence to
to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions. - Shak.

v. t.

To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.

Related Words

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