Violence
['vaɪəl(ə)ns] or ['vaɪələns]
Definition
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc..
Checker: Sherman--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
(n.) Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
(n.) Ravishment; rape; constupration.
(v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
Editor: Maris
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Vehemence, impetuosity, boisterousness.[2]. Passion, fury, fierceness, wildness, rage.[3]. Outrage, injustice, injury, unlawfulness, sway or brute force, reign of terror.[4]. Sharpness, acuteness, severity, poignancy, intensity.
Checker: Lowell
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Vehemence, impetuosity, force, rape, outrage, rage, profanation, injustice,fury, infringement, fierceness, oppression
ANT:Lenity, mildness, self-restraint, feebleness, gentleness, respect, forbearance,self-control, observance, obedience, preservation, conservation, protection
Edited by Johanna
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that any person does you violence, denotes that you will be overcome by enemies. If you do some other persons violence, you will lose fortune and favor by your reprehensible way of conducting your affairs.
Editor: Segre
Examples
- He waxes strong in all violence and lawlessness; and is ready for any deed of daring that will supply the wants of his rabble-rout. Plato. The Republic.
- Was it of him you spoke in your ungovernable rage and violence? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- When the air descends with a violence in some places, it may rise with equal violence in others, and form both kinds of whirlwinds. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Hoped no violence would be committed. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Those two orders the church did assimilate and use, though with a little violence in the case of the former. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I looked with interest upon this man, who was accused of being the perpetrator of a crime of violence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But this blow was delivered with such violence that the head of the weapon sank deep into the wall. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Unscathed by the lance of his enemy, he had died a victim to the violence of his own contending passions. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The stories of violence and vanity in his closing years cluster thick upon his memory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But the lawyer shall know of those bruises on your arm, and of the violence offered to you in this room--he shall, before I rest to-night! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- So long as there was no actual violence, the Senate and the financiers kept on in their own disastrous way. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is, I think, no chance that they will proceed to any actual violence against their prisoners. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- For the sake of mercy, said Rebecca, tell me what I am to expect as the conclusion of the violence which hath dragged me hither! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- It is not violence that best overcomes hate--nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Editor: Ryan