violence
/ˈvaɪ(ə)lən(t)s/ noun B1- Extreme force. · The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.
- Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering. · We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts.
- Widespread fighting. · Violence between the government and the rebels continues.
- A perceived injustice, especially in the context of social justice. · The translation does violence to the original novel.
Plural violences
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We found no signs of violence upon it.
At my summons, instead of the man of violence whom we expected, a very old and wrinkled woman hobbled into the apartment.
However, scarcely was the imperial power established—that is, scarcely had the emperor re-entered the Tuileries and begun to issue orders from the closet into which we have introduced our readers,—he found on the table there Louis XVIII.’s half-filled snuff-box,—scarcely had this occurred when Marseilles began, in spite of the authorities, to rekindle the flames of civil war, always smouldering in the south, and it required but little to excite the populace to acts of far greater violence than the shouts and insults with which they assailed the royalists whenever they ventured abroad.
He had not been robbed, and there was no particular reason to suspect violence.
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