violous
English
editEtymology
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Pronunciation
editAdjective
editviolous (comparative more violous, superlative most violous)
- (obsolete) violent
- 1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
- You are so violous: This I'm resolv'd, If she be a Whore once, I'll renounce her
References
edit“violous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.