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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Violence \Vi"o*lence\, noun [F., fr. L. violentia. See {Violent}.]
1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. --Shak.
All the elements At least had gone to wrack, disturbed and torn With the violence of this conflict. --Milton.
2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
Do violence to do man. --Luke iii. 14.
We can not, without offering violence to all records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge. --T. Burnet.
Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with violence. --Milton.
3. Ravishment; rape; constupration.
{To do violence on}, to attack; to murder. ''She . . . did violence on herself.'' --Shak.
{To do violence to}, to outrage; to injure; as, he does violence to his own opinions.
Syn: Vehemence; outrage; fierceness; eagerness; violation; infraction; infringement; transgression; oppression.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Violence \Vi"o*lence\, verb (used with an object) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
violence
noun
1: 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 one" [syn: {force}]
2: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: {ferocity}, {fierceness}, {furiousness}, {fury}, {vehemence}, {wildness}]
3: a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
148 Moby Thesaurus words for "violence": Alecto, Megaera, Nemesis, Tisiphone, abuse, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, agitability, animality, argumentum baculinum, assault, astringency, atrociousness, atrocity, attack, barbarity, barbarousness, beastliness, bestiality, bite, bitterness, bloodiness, bloodlust, bloodthirst, bloodthirstiness, bloody-mindedness, brutality, brutalness, brute force, brutishness, burning rage, cannibalism, causticity, clash, coercion, combustibility, compulsion, constraint, cruelness, cruelty, damage, destructiveness, distort, do violence to, duress, edge, edginess, emotional instability, emotionalism, energy, eruptiveness, excitability, excitableness, explosiveness, ferociousness, ferocity, fiendishness, fierceness, foul, frenzy, furious rage, furor, fury, grip, harm, harshness, high pressure, ill-treatment, ill-usage, ill-use, inflammability, inhumaneness, inhumanity, injure, injury, intensity, intimidation, irascibility, irritability, keenness, latent violence, maltreatment, might, mightiness, mistreatment, molestation, mordacity, mordancy, murderousness, nervousness, outrage, passion, perturbability, physical force, poignancy, point, power, pressure, prickliness, rage, rigor, roughness, ruthlessness, sadism, sadistic cruelty, sanguineousness, savagery, sensitivity, severity, sharpness, skittishness, startlishness, sting, strength, stridency, stringency, strong-arm tactics, tartness, tearing passion, teeth, tempestuousness, the Erinyes, the Eumenides, the Furies, the big stick, the bludgeon, the club, the jackboot, the mailed fist, the strong arm, the sword, touchiness, towering rage, trenchancy, truculence, twist, uproar, vandalism, vehemence, viciousness, vigor, violation, virulence, wanton cruelty, warp, wildness
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