VIOLENCE
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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.
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That seal
You ask with such a violence, the king,
Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me.
Shak.
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All the elements
At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn
With the violence of this conflict.
Milton.
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2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
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Do violence to do man.
Luke iii. 14.
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We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge.
T. Burnet.
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Looking down, he saw
The whole earth filled with violence.
Milton.
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3. Ravishment; rape; constupration.
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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.
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Syn. -- Vehemence; outrage; fierceness; eagerness; violation; infraction; infringement; transgression; oppression.
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Vi"o*lence, v. t. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
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