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Webster 1913 Edition
Violence
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
Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me.
You ask with such a
violence
, the king,Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me.
Shakespeare
All the elements
At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn
With the
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
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.
Vi′o-lence
,Verb.
T.
To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Violence
VI'OLENCE
,Noun.
1.
Physical force; strength of action or motion; as the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.2.
Moral force; vehemence. The critic attacked the work with violence.3.
Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds.The earth was filled with violence. Gen. 6.
4.
Eagerness; vehemence.You ask with violence.
5.
Injury; infringement. Offer no violence to the laws, or to the rules of civility.6.
Injury; hurt.Do violence to no man. Luke 3.
7.
Ravishment; rape.To do violence to or on, to attack; to murder.
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
To do violence to, to outrage; to force; to injure. He does violence to his own opinions.
VI'OLENCE
,Verb.
T.