violence
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle English violence, from Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from adjective violentus, see violent. Displaced native Old English stræc.
PronunciationEdit
- IPA(key): /ˈvaɪ(ə)ləns/
- (obsolete or poetic) IPA(key): /ˈvaɪ(ə)ˌlɛns/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪələns, -aɪləns
NounEdit
violence (countable and uncountable, plural violences)
- Extreme force.
- The violence of the storm, fortunately, was more awesome than destructive.
- Physical action which causes destruction, harm, pain, or suffering.
- 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:
- One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.
- We try to avoid violence in resolving conflicts.
- Widespread fighting.
- Violence between the government and the rebels continues.
- (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
- The translation does violence to the original novel.
- 2017, Kevin J. O'Brien, The Violence of Climate Change
- Racism, classism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism are also wicked problems of structural violence […]
- (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
AntonymsEdit
- (action intended to cause destruction, pain or suffering): peace, nonviolence
HypernymsEdit
- (extreme force): force
Related termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
extreme force
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action intended to cause destruction, pain or suffering
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widespread fighting
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injustice, wrong
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VerbEdit
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.
ReferencesEdit
- 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
FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French violence, from Latin violentia, from the adjective violentus, see violent.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
violence f (plural violences)
- (uncountable) violence
- (countable) act of violence
SynonymsEdit
AntonymsEdit
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Related termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “violence”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle EnglishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Old French violence, from Latin violentia.
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
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.
DescendantsEdit
- English: violence
ReferencesEdit
- “vī̆olence, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-30.
Old FrenchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Borrowed from Latin violentia.
NounEdit
violence f (oblique plural violences, nominative singular violence, nominative plural violences)
- violence
- act of violence