Violent — Defs

01 a. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous;…

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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.

Phrases & compounds

Violent presumption — presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts.

Violent profits — 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.

02 n. An assailant.

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An assailant.[Obs.]

03 v. t. To urge with violence.

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To urge with violence.[Obs.]

04 v. i. To be violent; to act violently.

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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.