VI'OLENCE, noun [Latin violentia.] 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 Genesis 6:11. 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 3:14. 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 transitive To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence [Little used.]
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