meaning of violencea
1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
3. Ravishment; rape; constupration.
4. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
5. 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
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