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Definition of Violint

Vi"o*lent (?), a. [F., from L. violentus, from vis strength, force; probably akin to Gr. &?; a muscle, strength.] 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.
Shak.

A violent cross wind from either coast.
Milton.

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.
Milton.

Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
Shak.

3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.

These violent delights have violent ends.
Shak.

No violent state can be perpetual.
T. Burnet.

Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Milton.

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.

Syn. -- Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.

Vi"o*lent, n. An assailant. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Vi"o*lent, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.] To urge with violence. [Obs.] Fuller.

Vi"o*lent, 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.
Shak.

Vi"o*lent (?), a. [F., from L. violentus, from vis strength, force; probably akin to Gr. &?; a muscle, strength.] 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.
Shak.

A violent cross wind from either coast.
Milton.

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.
Milton.

Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
Shak.

3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.

These violent delights have violent ends.
Shak.

No violent state can be perpetual.
T. Burnet.

Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Milton.

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.

Syn. -- Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.

Vi"o*lent, n. An assailant. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Vi"o*lent, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.] To urge with violence. [Obs.] Fuller.

Vi"o*lent, 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.
Shak.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

  • Involving extreme force or motion.
          A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
  • Involving physical conflict.
          We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if needed.
  • Likely to use physical force.
          The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent.
  • enormous; gigantic; immense
         
  • 1963 - A. S. Hornby, E. V. Gatenby and H. Wakefield, The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English, Oxford University Press, second edition
         :orgasm n. violent excitement, esp. the crisis of sexual excitement during intercourse
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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