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violence
English
Etymology
From Middle English violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?va??l?ns/, /?va?l?ns/
- (obsolete or poetic) IPA(key): /?va???l?ns/, /?va??l?ns/
- Rhymes: -a??l?ns, -a?l?ns
Noun
violence (countable and uncountable, plural violences)
- Extreme force.
- Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
- Widespread fighting.
- (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
- 2017, Kevin J. O'Brien, The Violence of Climate Change
- Racism, classism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism are also wicked problems of structural violence […]
- 2017, Kevin J. O'Brien, The Violence of Climate Change
- (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
Antonyms
- (action intended to cause destruction, pain or suffering): peace, nonviolence
Hypernyms
- (extreme force): force
Related terms
- violent
- violate
- violation
Translations
See also
- domestic violence
- reverse domestic violence
Verb
violence (third-person singular simple present violences, present participle violencing, simple past and past participle violenced)
- (nonstandard) To subject to violence.
- 1996, Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Respectful Educators - Capable Learners: Children's Rights and Early Education, SAGE ?ISBN, page 36:
- The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position ...
- 2011, Timothy D. Forsyth, The Alien, AuthorHouse ?ISBN, page 24:
- And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.
- 2012, Megan Sweeney, The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading, University of Illinois Press ?ISBN, page 46:
- He physically violenced my mother, physically violenced me and my brothers, and was sexually abusive to me until I was in second grade.
- 1996, Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Respectful Educators - Capable Learners: Children's Rights and Early Education, SAGE ?ISBN, page 36:
References
- violence at OneLook Dictionary Search
- violence in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "violence" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 329.
- violence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
French
Etymology
From Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from the adjective violentus, see violent.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vj?.l??s/
- Homophone: violences
Noun
violence f (plural violences)
- (uncountable) violence
- (countable) act of violence
Synonyms
- ardeur
- brutalité
- force
- fougue
- fureur
- sévices
- virulence
Antonyms
- douceur
Derived terms
- faire violence
Related terms
- violemment
- violent
- violenter
Further reading
- “violence” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Alternative forms
- violens, vyolence, vyolens, vyalens, wiolence, violense
Etymology
From Old French violence, from Latin violentia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?vi??l??ns(?)/, /?vi??l??ns(?)/, /vi?l??ns(?)/, /?vi??l?ns(?)/
Noun
violence (uncountable)
- Violence (harmful manual force) or an example of it.
- A harmful force of nature; great natural force.
- Divine or religious force or strength.
- The force or power of one's feelings or mental state.
- Powerful or forceful movement or mobility.
- Misrule or malgovernance; abuse of authority.
- (rare) Beneficial manual force.
- (rare) The strength of an ache.
- (rare) The whims of chance.
Descendants
- English: violence
References
- “v??olence, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-30.
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin violentia.
Noun
violence f (oblique plural violences, nominative singular violence, nominative plural violences)
- violence
- act of violence
Descendants
- ? Middle English: violence, violens, vyolence, vyolens, vyalens, wiolence, violense
- English: violence
- French: violence
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warfare
English
Etymology
Mid 15thc., Middle English werefare, from Middle English werre (“war”) +? fare (“journey, going”), equivalent to war +? fare.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?w??f??/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?w??f??/
- Hyphenation: war?fare
Noun
warfare (usually uncountable, plural warfares)
- The waging of war or armed conflict against an enemy.
- The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel.
- Military operations of some particular kind e.g. guerrilla warfare.
Derived terms
Related terms
- war
Translations
Verb
warfare (third-person singular simple present warfares, present participle warfaring, simple past and past participle warfared)
- To lead a military life; to carry on continual wars.
References
- warfare in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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