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Violent   /vˈaɪələnt/  /vˈaɪlənt/   Listen
adjective
Violent  adj.  
1.
Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease. "Float upon a wild and violent sea." "A violent cross wind from either coast."
2.
Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech. "To bring forth more violent deeds." "Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life."
3.
Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal. "These violent delights have violent ends." "No violent state can be perpetual." "Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void."
Violent presumption (Law), presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.
Violent profits (Scots Law), rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.
Synonyms: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.



noun
Violent  n.  An assailant. (Obs.)



verb
Violent  v. t.  To urge with violence. (Obs.)



Violent  v. i.  To be violent; to act violently. (Obs.) "The grief is fine, full, perfect, that I taste, And violenteth in a sense as strong As that which causeth it."






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"Violent" Quotes from Famous Books



... political philosophers to dream of what might have been, or in the abstract of what ought to be. Reform, it is true, in this way comes slowly, but it comes without the disturbance of material interests, without agitation of human passions, and without the violent outbreaks which these occasion—hindering and obstructing its progress in that grand and orderly procession of moral causes and effects which expresses and marks the providence and government ...
— A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention • Lucius Eugene Chittenden

... his income was required of Palgrave. He possessed that gift to an expert degree. But he was no easy mark, no mere degenerate who hacked off great chunks of a splendid fortune for the sake of violent exercise. He was too indolent for violence, too inherently fastidious for degeneracy. And deep down somewhere in a nature that had had no incentive to develop, there was the fag end of that family shrewdness ...
— Who Cares? • Cosmo Hamilton

... disappear, and from which waves of bulk enormous would roll outwards, to meet in wild conflict with the giant waves of other convulsions, or return to hiss and sputter against the intensely heated and fast foundering mass, whose violent upheaval had first elevated and sent them abroad. Such would be the probable state of things during the times of the earlier gneiss and mica schist deposits,—times buried deep in that chaotic night or "evening" which must have continued to exist for mayhap many ages after ...
— The Testimony of the Rocks - or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed • Hugh Miller

... camped in Owl Gulch, a steep, narrow defile, little more than a crack in the huge walls of surrounding rock; and the next day, after much arduous and violent climbing for horses and men up the gulch and over the low back of a mountain, they passed down into a quiet little valley, just as the sun sank behind the tops of ...
— The Cave of Gold - A Tale of California in '49 • Everett McNeil

... to do to comfort her. She was, as I have said, like one distracted, and went raving about the cabin, crying out she was undone! undone! she should be drowned! and the like. And at last, the ship giving a jerk, by the force, I suppose, of some violent wave, it threw poor Amy quite down, for she was weak enough before with being sea-sick, and as it threw her forward, the poor girl struck her head against the bulk-head, as the seamen call it, of the cabin, and laid her as dead as a stone ...
— The Fortunate Mistress (Parts 1 and 2) • Daniel Defoe


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