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Violence - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Violence : (noun)
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.
Based on WordNet 2.0
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Violence : \Vi"o*lence\, v. t.
To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
[Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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VIOLENCE. The abuse of force. Theorie des Lois Criminelles, 32. That force
which is employed against common right, against the laws, and against public
liberty. Merl. h. t, 2. In cases of robbery, in order to convict the
accused, it is requisite to prove that the act was done with violence; but
thisViolence : is not confined to an actual assault of the person, by
beating, knocking down, or forcibly wresting from him on the contrary,
whatever goes to intimidate or overawe, by the apprehension of personal
violence, or by fear of life, with a view to compel the delivery of property
equally falls within its limits. Alison, Pr. Cr. Law of Scotl. 228; 4 Binn.
R. 379; 2 Russ. on Cr. 61; 1 Hale P. C. 553. When an article is merely
snatched, as by a sudden pull, even though a momentary force be exerted, it
is not such violence as to constitute a robbery. 2 East, P. C. 702; 2 Russ.
Cr. 68; Dig. 4, 2, 2 and 3.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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