Violence: Definition and part of speech

Violence

  1. v. t. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
  2. n. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
  3. n. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
  4. n. Ravishment; rape; constupration.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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