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English

Etymology

From Middle English violent, from Old French violent, from Latin violentus, from v?s (“strength”). For the verb, compare French violenter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va?.?.l?nt/, /?va?.l?nt/
• Rhymes: -a?l?nt
• Hyphenation: vi?o?lent, vio?lent

Adjective

violent (comparative violenter or more violent, superlative violentest or most violent)

1. Involving extreme force or motion.

2. Involving physical conflict.

3. Likely to use physical force.

4. Intensely vivid.

   • We have already observed, that he was a very good-natured fellow, and he hath himself declared the violent attachment he had to the person and character of Jones […]

5. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
   • 1684-1690, Thomas Burnet, Sacred Theory of the Earth

     and no violent state by his own Maxim, can be perpetual,

Antonyms

• peaceful

Related terms

• violence

Translations

Verb

violent (third-person singular simple present violents, present participle violenting, simple past and past participle violented)

1. (transitive, archaic) To urge with violence.

   • a great adversary , stepping in , so violented his Majesty to a trial

Noun

violent (plural violents)

1. (obsolete) An assailant.

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Anagrams

• LOVEINT

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin violentus.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /vi.o?lent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /bi.u?len/

Adjective

violent (feminine violenta, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentes)

1. violent

Derived terms

• violentament

Related terms

• violència

Further reading

• “violent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “violent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “violent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “violent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed into Old French from Latin violentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vj?.l??/

Adjective

violent (feminine singular violente, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentes)

1. violent
2. severe

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vj?l/
• Homophones: viole, violes

Verb

violent

1. inflection of violer:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. third-person plural present subjunctive

Anagrams

• ventilo, voilent

Further reading

• “violent” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Verb

violent

1. third-person plural present active subjunctive of viol?

Middle English

Alternative forms

• vyolent, wyolent, vilent

Etymology

From Old French violent, from Latin violentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi??l??nt/, /?vi??l??nt/, /vi?l??nt/, /?vi??l?nt/

Adjective

violent (plural and weak singular violente)

1. Violent, forcible, injury-causing.
2. Potent, mighty, damaging, forceful
3. Severe, extreme; excessive in magnitude.
4. Tending to cause injuries; likely to cause violence.
5. Abrupt; happening without warning or notice.
6. (rare) Despotic, authoritarian; ruling unfairly.

Related terms

• violence
• violently

Descendants

• English: violent

References

• “v??olent, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-30.

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin violentus.

Adjective

violent m (feminine singular violenta, masculine plural violents, feminine plural violentas)

1. violent

Related terms

• violéncia

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin violentus.

Adjective

violent m (oblique and nominative feminine singular violent or violente)

1. violent (using violence)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: violent, vyolent, wyolent, vilent
  • English: violent
• French: violent

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vju?l??t/

Adjective

violent

1. violent

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French violent, Latin violentus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi.o?lent/

Adjective

violent m or n (feminine singular violent?, masculine plural violen?i, feminine and neuter plural violente)

1. violent

Declension

Related terms

• violen??

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)

1. Extreme force.

2. Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.

3. Widespread fighting.

4. (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 […]

5. (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)

1. (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.

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)

1. (uncountable) violence
2. (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)

1. Violence (harmful manual force) or an example of it.
2. A harmful force of nature; great natural force.
3. Divine or religious force or strength.
4. The force or power of one's feelings or mental state.
5. Powerful or forceful movement or mobility.
6. Misrule or malgovernance; abuse of authority.
7. (rare) Beneficial manual force.
8. (rare) The strength of an ache.
9. (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)

1. violence
2. act of violence

Descendants

• ? Middle English: violence, violens, vyolence, vyolens, vyalens, wiolence, violense
  • English: violence
• French: violence