violency
English
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editviolency (plural violencies)
- Violence. [from 16th c.]
- (obsolete, countable) A moment or act of violence. [17th–19th c.]
- 1785 March 1, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana:
- Cardinal d'Orini […] exclaimed against these Innovations & Violencies, by which his Fortune like that of many other Ecclesiastics had been impaired […] .