VIOLENT
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Vi"o*lent (?), a. [F., from L. violentus, from vis strength, force; probably akin to Gr. &unr_; 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.
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Float upon a wild and violent sea.
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A violent cross wind from either coast.
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2. Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
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To bring forth more violent deeds.
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Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
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3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
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These violent delights have violent ends.
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No violent state can be perpetual.
T. Burnet.
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Ease would recant
Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
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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.
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Syn. -- Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.
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Vi"o*lent, n. An assailant. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
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Vi"o*lent, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.] To urge with violence. [Obs.] Fuller.
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Vi"o*lent, v. i. To be violent; to act violently. [Obs.]
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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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