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VIOLENCE
violence, force
(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”
ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
(noun) the property of being wild or turbulent; “the storm’s violence”
violence
(noun) a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
violence (countable and uncountable, plural violences)
Extreme force.
Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
Widespread fighting.
(figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
Antonyms
• (action intended to cause destruction, pain or suffering): peace, nonviolence
Hypernyms
• (extreme force): force
Verb
violence (third-person singular simple present violences, present participle violencing, simple past and past participle violenced)
(nonstandard) To subject to violence.
Source: Wiktionary
Vi"o*lence, n. Etym: [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.
Vi"o*lence, v. t.
Definition: To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PUNGENCY
(noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality; “he commented with typical pungency”; “the bite of satire”
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