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Definition: Violence |
ViolenceNoun1. An act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one". 2. The property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence". 3. A turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "violence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream that any person does you violence, denotes that you will be overcome by enemies. If you do some other persons violence, you will lose fortune and favor by your reprehensible way of conducting your affairs. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Violence is deliberate behaviour resulting in physical injury to other human beings, or more broadly to other animals as well, and is often, but not necessarily, associated with aggression. Some forms of violence are socially and legally sanctioned, others are crimes. Different societies apply different standards relating to approved and non-approved forms of violence.
Forms of violence include:
James W. Prescott did a study about the cause of violence in the anthropological sense.
- Assassination
- Assault
- Boxing
- Corporal punishment
- Domestic violence
- Drive-by shooting
- Dueling
- Genocide
- Judicial execution
- War
- Martial arts
- please add more to this list
also see http://www.violence.de for more information about James W. Prescott's work.
Cruelty is unethical violence, also psychological kinds.
See also:
- Non-violence
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Violence."
Synonyms: ViolenceSynonyms: ferocity (n), fierceness (n), force (n), furiousness (n), fury (n), vehemence (n), wildness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Excitability | Violence; fierceness; Adjective: rage, fury, furor, furore, desperation, madness, distraction, raving, delirium; phrensy, frenzy, hysterics; intoxication; tearing passion, raging passion; anger. |
Illegality | Arbitrariness; Adjective: antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry. |
Inexpedience | Maltreat, abuse; ill-use, ill-treat; buffet, bruise, scratch, maul; smite; (scourge); do violence, do harm, do a mischief; stab, pierce, outrage. |
Laxity | Anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening; Verb: remission; dead letter, brutum fulmen, misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination; (disobedience); lynch law; (illegality); nihilism, reign of violence. |
Nonobservance | Infringe, transgress, violate, pirate, break, trample under foot, do violence to, drive a coach and six through. |
Resentment | Burst, explosion, paroxysm, storm, rage, fury, desperation; violence; fire and fury; vials of wrath; gnashing of teeth, hot blood, high words. |
Undueness | Infringe, encroach, trench on, exact; arrogate, arrogate to oneself; give an inch and take an ell; stretch a point, strain a point; usurp, violate, do violence to. |
Violence | Phrase: furor arma ministrat; "blown with restless violence round about the pendent world". |
Noun: violence, inclemency, vehemence, might, impetuosity; boisterousness; Adjective: effervescence, ebullition; turbulence, bluster; uproar, callithump, riot, row, rumpus, le diable a quatre, devil to pay, all the fat in the fire. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Violence and technologynot good bedfellows (The Lost World: Jurassic Park; writing credit: David Koepp) Come see the violence inherent in the system (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; writing credit: Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin.) At the first signs of violence, they act automatically against the aggressor (The Day the Earth Stood Still; writing credit: Harry Bates; Edmund H. North) Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value (Clueless; writing credit: Amy Heckerling.) Here at Itchy and Scratchy Land, we're just as concerned with violence as you are. That's why we're always careful to show the consequences of deadly mayhem, so that we may educate as well as horrify (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Lyrics | Violence is spread worldwide and theres families on the street (I Believe; performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls) Words like violence (Enjoy the Silence; performing artist: Depeche Mode) And after all the violence and double talk (Walk Of Life; performing artist: Dire Straits) I'm tired of the violence (Special; performing artist: Garbage) The sneaky silent men the punk domestic violence men (Doo Wop (That Thing); performing artist: Lauryn Hill) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Random Acts of Violence (2002) Le Hasard et la violence (1974) The Question of Television Violence (1972) Man of Violence (1971) | |
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Nova eruptions by dying stars were thought to be simple, predictable acts of violence. ... Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Il y a violence, lorsqu'elle est de nature a faire impression sur une personne raisonnable. / Cham [i.e. Amédée Noé]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | |
![]() | Violence attacking civil rights militants. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Women of India carry on Gandhi salt campaign: wives of leaders active as violence grows. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Trial by violence. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | J.M. Rees tells his story of violence in Arkansas. Hill House, Mississippi. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | "Hey Mom, look what violence on TV does to Dad!". Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Your vote will improve Japan : is there any country with more freedom than Japan? our party will protect this freedom and not allow violence or destruction. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | "We have a responsibility to the victims of crime and violence ..." Robert F. Kennedy. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Christmas drive : toys, clothing, food for victims of the violence in Northern Ireland. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| ""Urban violence 2"" by Tina Lorien Commentary: "This used to be a chocolate factory - now playground for whomever! In the suburbs of Copnhagen." | "Seascape" by Priit Kallas Commentary: "Tranquil adjective: calm and peaceful and without noise, violence, anxiety, etc." |
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| Punch; punching bag; violence; violent; fighting; fight; hit; hitting; bash; belt; biff; blow; bop; box; buffet; clip; clout; cuff; dig; jab; jog; knock; lollop; nudge; one-two; plug; plunk; poke; prod; pummel; rap; shot; slam; slap; slug; slug; smack; sm. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Boyes | Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. |
E. M. Cioran | Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. |
Francis Jeffrey | Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest violence. |
H. Rap Brown | Violence is as American as cherry pie. |
Julius Kambarge Nyerere | Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way. |
Lucretius | The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. |
Max Stirner | The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. |
Norman O. Brown | Freedom is poetry, taking liberties with words, breaking the rules of normal speech, violating common sense. Freedom is violence. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding. |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | First, As, in some countries, the person of the prince by the law is sacred; and so, whatever he commands or does, his person is still free from all question or violence, not liable to force, or any judicial censure or condemnation. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic Violence. (reference) |
The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | And I hereby enjoin upon the people so declared to be free to abstain from all violence, unless in necessary self-defence; and I recommend to them that, in all case when allowed, they labor faithfully for reasonable wages. (Abraham Lincoln) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | Damage caused by Germany or her allies to civilian victims of acts of cruelty, violence or maltreatment (including injuries to life or health as a consequence of imprisonment, deportation, internment or evacuation, of exposure at sea or of being forced to labour), wherever arising, and to the surviving dependents of such victims. (reference) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1956) |
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Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And as to being expelled with violence, that event would necessarily come first in this case |
Young Zaphod Plays It Safe | Douglas Adams | Zaphod screamed a diminished fifth himself, dropped his light and sat heavily on the floor, or rather on a body which had been lying there undisturbed for six months and which reacted to being sat on by exploding with great violence. Zaphod wondered what to do about all this, and after a brief but hectic internal debate decided that passing out would be the very thing |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | To attempt to realise it, the utmost violence must be imagined in the presence of the most extreme mildness |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The very frequency and violence of temptations showed him at last the truth of what he had heard about the trials of the saints |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | To make an act of tragic violence. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I would have pursued my journey, but he placed himself directly in the way, yet looking with a very mild aspect, never offering the least violence. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Domestic violence affects children and adults of both genders. (references) | |
They can lead to school failure, family conflicts, drug abuse, violence, or suicide. (references) | ||
In summary, the extent to which steroid abuse contributes to violence and behavioral disorders is unknown. (references) | ||
Business | Germany supported the appointment of a special rapporteur on violence against women at the UNHCR. (references) | |
Conflicts between rival prison groups, often involved in drug trafficking, continued to spark lethal violence. (references) | ||
Chinese sociologists note that there has been no detailed research on the extent of physical violence against women. (references) | ||
Children | Brazil | Youth are both victims and perpetrators of violence. (references) |
Somalia | Children remain among the chief victims of the continuing violence. (references) | |
Japan | Teachers also increasingly are becoming the targets of student violence. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Israel and the occupied territories | Laws prohibit hate speech and incitement to violence. (references) |
Burma | An estimated 10 Muslims and 2 Buddhists were killed in the violence. (references) | |
Georgia | In March Parliament passed a resolution condemning religious violence. (references) | |
Discrimination | Congo | Ethnic and regional differences continued; however, there was no organized civil violence during the year. (references) |
Brazil | A prominent example of violence directed at homosexuals occurred in Sao Paulo in February 2000, when Edson Neris da Silva was beaten to death by a skinhead gang after having been seen holding hands with another man. (references) | |
Kenya | There is credible evidence that the Government sponsored large-scale ethnic violence during the early 1990's, and there were some indications that some government officials have at least tolerated and in some instances instigated ethnic violence on a smaller scale since that time. (references) | |
Economic History | Indonesia | In Papua, violence has been less frequent. (references) |
Germany | The vast majority of Germans condemn such violence. (references) | |
Mauritius | Strikes and politically motivated violence are rare. (references) | |
Human Rights | Haiti | This subjects women to violence and sexual abuse. (references) |
Austria | Some of the violence appeared to be racially motivated. (references) | |
South Africa | Taxi violence continued to be prevalent in KwaZulu-Natal. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Canada | The nonaborignal fishermen sparked violence by cutting Burnt Church lobster trap lines and damaging aboriginal property. (references) |
El Salvador | These small indigenous groups exist in the poorest parts of the rural countryside where employment opportunities are few and domestic violence is a problem. (references) | |
Bangladesh | Bengali inhabitants in the CHT increased from 3 percent of the region's population in 1947 to approximately 50 percent of the area's population of 1 million persons in 1997. The Shanti-Bahini, a tribal group, had waged a low-level conflict in the CHT from the early 1970's until the signing of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord with the Government in December 1997. During the periods of violence, all of those involved--indigenous tribes, settlers, and security forces--accused each other of human rights violations. (references) | |
Minorities | Hungary | Police also fail to intervene to prevent violence against Roma. (references) |
Nigeria | Between 10,000 and 15,000 persons were displaced by the violence. (references) | |
Comoros | This campaign resulted in threats, but there were no reports of violence. (references) | |
Political Economy | Benin | They have not been marred by violence. (references) |
India | Violence in Jammu and Kashmir continued to be a problem. (references) | |
Senegal | No major political violence has been reported in Senegal. (references) | |
Political Rights | Mozambique | Leaders of both parties called for an end to the violence. (references) |
Bangladesh | Elections often are marred by violence, intimidation of voters, and vote rigging. (references) | |
Bangladesh | In response to the increased violence, the caretaker Government deployed 50,000 troops. (references) | |
Trade | Poland | OPIC can insure U.S. investments against political violence, expropriation, and inconvertibility of local currency. (references) |
Argentina | Investment Insurance: Provides insurance against the risks of currency inconvertibility, expropriation, and loss of assets or income caused by political violence. (references) | |
West Bank | However as a result of the current crisis many companies located there have closed shop due to violence in the vicinity of the GIE and road closures that have prevented the transport of goods and people. (references) | |
Travel | Ecuador | House burglaries and carjackings can result in violence. (references) |
Cote D'ivoire | It is uncommon for the carjackers to engage in gratuitous violence or to commit sexual assault. (references) | |
Egypt | While incidents of violence are rare, purse snatching, pick-pocketing and petty theft are not uncommon. (references) | |
Women | Poland | Police intervene in cases of domestic violence. (references) |
Rwanda | Wife beating and domestic violence occur frequently. (references) | |
Afghanistan | Women accused of adultery also were subjected to violence. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Slovenia | The women reportedly are subject to violence. (references) |
Panama | None of the strikes led to widespread violence. (references) | |
Turkey | Some violence against union members continued during the year. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. |
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Andrew Card | We would like to move forward with the peace process, but it's not realistic today because the level of violence has increased dramatically over the last several months. |
Linda Fairstein | I am always writing, but the violence issue is my passion, and I spend a lot of nonprofit time doing work on that issue. |
Marla Hanson | Well, I had a hard time accepting that right away, but I think what bothered people weren't so much the scars but what they represented, the violence. I think that really bothered people. |
Robert Novak | Mr. Speaker, this week we've seen further violence in the Middle East, Palestinian terrorists, suicide bombers, as well as the Israeli tanks moving in further and occupying the West Bank. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | If that solitary suffrage can be obtained by foreign nations by flattery or menaces, by fraud or violence, by terror, intrigue, or venality, the Government may not be the choice of the American people, but of foreign nations. |
John Quincy Adams | 1825-1829 | Licentious blockades, irregularly enlisted or impressed sea men, and the property of honest commerce seized with violence, and even plundered under legal pretenses, are disorders never separable from the conflicts of war upon the ocean. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Communism maintains that social wrongs can be corrected only by violence. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | But violence will never bring progress. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Money should be available to states to establish programs to help the victims of domestic violence. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Still others hesitate to venture out on the streets for fear of criminal violence. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | The problem of violence is an American problem. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | All fathers and mothers, in all societies, want their children to be educated, and live free from poverty and violence. |
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| "Violence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.83% of the time. "Violence" is used about 5,449 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.83% | 5,385 | 1,817 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.15% | 63 | 42,364 |
| Noun (common) | 0.02% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 5,449 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "violence". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Eshek | N/A | Biblical | Violence |
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Expressions using "violence": act of violence ♦ by violence ♦ do violence ♦ do violence to ♦ do violence to smth. ♦ Domestic Violence ♦ family violence ♦ mob violence ♦ public violence ♦ reign of violence ♦ robbery with violence ♦ To do violence on ♦ To do violence to ♦ use violence against smb. ♦ video violence ♦ violence of his temper ♦ violence of the contrast ♦ violence of the wind ♦ without resort to violence. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "violence": violence-affected, violence-free, violence-grievance-attempted, violence-monitoring, violence-prone, violence-related, violence-ridden, violence-threatening. | |
Ending with "violence": anti-violence, counter-violence, non-violence, sex-and-violence. | |
Containing "violence": grievance-violence-remedy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
domestic violence | 2,077 | gun violence | 62 |
violence | 1,163 | sex and violence | 52 |
school violence | 558 | child violence | 52 |
workplace violence | 343 | dating violence | 52 |
media violence | 197 | movie violence | 51 |
television violence | 173 | violence in video game | 50 |
teen violence | 154 | television violence child | 48 |
video game violence | 150 | violence prevention | 46 |
tv violence | 143 | domestic violence and child | 45 |
gang violence | 142 | music and violence | 43 |
violence in the media | 138 | domestic shelter violence | 37 |
family violence | 138 | school violence statistics | 34 |
domestic violence statistics | 122 | juvenile violence | 33 |
violence in the workplace | 112 | cycle of violence | 32 |
violence in school | 111 | violence in music | 31 |
violence against woman | 97 | teen dating violence | 30 |
violence in sports | 90 | sports violence | 30 |
youth violence | 87 | teenage violence | 30 |
domestic picture violence | 72 | act against violence woman | 29 |
law domestic violence | 63 | cartoon violence | 28 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "violence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrull (Ardor, ardour, burst, career, dash, drive, driving force, elan, flush, furor, fury, ginger, impetuosity, impetus, momentum, pelt, pep, pith, raciness, rage, reach, spasm, spurt, tear, tearing, thrust, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, zest, zip), violencë, përdhunim (rape, ravishment, violation), përdhunë, keqpërdorim (ill-treatment, misapplication), forcë (coercion, effect, emphasis, energy, force, intensity, might, mightiness, muscle, nerve, pith, potency, power, puissance, strain, strength, vigor, vigour), dhunë (force, forcing, outrage, viciousness), dëm (damage, Dent, detriment, disadvantage, harm, impairment, injury, insalubrity, lesion, maleficence, mischief, mischievousness, noxiousness, prejudice, scathe), cenim (encroachment, hurt, invasion). (various references) | |
Arabic | قوة (ability, agency, arm, authority, birr, capacity, clout, dint, energy, faculty, force, forcefulness, forcing, hardihood, intension, intensity, iron, leverage, might, operation, potency, power, severity, sinew, solidity, stamina, starch, stoutness, strength, vehemence, vigor, vigour, virility, virtue), قسوة (asperity, austerity, cruelty, hardheartedness, hardness, harshness, inexorability, inhumanity, mercilessness, pitilessness, rigidity, rigor, rigour, ruggedness, severity, sternness, strictness, stringency), عنف (blow up, check, chide, convulse, expostulate, fierceness, force, heating, impetuosity, rant, rebuke, roughness, rowdyism, rudeness, scold, smarten, thuggery, vehemence, whip off), التحريف, إغتصاب لفتاة (dishonor, dishonour), إتقاد في الشعور, أذى (disadvantage, disfavor, disfavour, hardship, harm, hurst, injury, injustice, insult, lesion, mayhem, trauma, wickedness, zenana), شدة (adversity, exaltation, ferocity, harshness, hindrance, intensity, misery, need, rigor, solidity, strength, temperature, vehemence, warmth), بطش (assault, force, valor, valour). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | ярост (Bate, desperation, frenzy, fury, ire, madness, paddywhack, passion, rabidity, rage, rave, tear, wax), стремителност (impetuosity, impetus), сила (definition, drive, dynamism, effect, energy, feck, fiber, fibre, flush, force, forcefulness, forte, goodness, hardness, impetus, intension, intensity, inwardness, kick, lustiness, medium, might, mightiness, muscle, muscularity, nerve, pith, potency, power, prowess, punch, sinews, snap, stamina, strength, stringency, tenacity, thews, tuck, vehemence, verve, vigor, vigour, vim, vinegar, virility, virtue, virulence, vis, volume, zap, zip), ревност (eagerness, fervency, heartburning, jealousy, mettle, zealotry), несдържаност (incontinence, intemperance), насилие (coercion, force, heat, outrage), жар (ardour, embers, fervency, fervor, fervour, fire, flame, ginger, glow, gusto, heat, incandescence, mustard, vehemence, warmth, zest), буйност (boisterousness, ebullience, ebulliency, impetuosity), извращение (contortion, perversion), извращаване (contortion, distortion). (various references) | |
Chinese | 暴力 (force, violent). (various references) | |
Czech | zuřivost (ferocity, fierceness, frenzy, furiosity, furor, furore, fury, rabidity, rage), urážka (affront, brickbat, contumely, injury, insult, offence, outrage), prudkost (effervescence, effervescency, ferocity, fierceness, impetuosity, intensity, rapidity, vehemence, viciousness, vigor, vigour, virulence), porušení (betrayal of trust, breach, contravention, infraction, infringement, violation), násilí (force). (various references) | |
Danish | voldelig handling, udoevelse af vold, anvendelse af vold. (various references) | |
Dutch | geweldpleging, geweld. (various references) | |
Esperanto | perforto. (various references) | |
Farsi | غصب (Usurpation), تندی (Acerbity, Acrimony, Discourtesy, Ginger, Heat, Impetuosity, Kick, Pace, Pungency, Rapidity, Rigor, Speed, Vehemence, Velocity, Virulence), سختی (Accolade, Austerity, Buckram, Difficulty, Duration, Duress, Granite, Hardship, Implacability, Inflexibility, Privation, Resistance, Rigidity, Severity, Solidity, Stress, Tenacity), زور (Dint, Energy, Hustle, Might, Power, Push, Strain, Strength, Stunt, Thrust, Tuck, Vigor, Vim, Vis, Vivacity, Zing, Zip), خشونت (Discourtesy, Loathloth, Rigor, Severity, Stricture, Truculence), اشتلم , شدت (Acrimony, Duress, Extremity, Gravity, Intensity, Severity, Stringency, Vehemence), بی حرمتی (Affront, Disrespect). (various references) | |
Finnish | väkivalta. (various references) | |
French | violence. (various references) | |
German | Heftigkeit (acuteness, Ardor, ardour, bitterness, ferocity, fierceness, hastiness, heaviness, intenseness, intensity, severeness, severity, tempestuousness, vehemence, vehemency, vigor, vigour, virulence, warmth, weight, wildness), Gewalttätigkeit (rough stuff, rowdyism), Gewalt (ability, authority, coercion, control, force, grip, hold, mightiness, power, strength, vigour). (various references) | |
Greek | βία (constraint, expedition, force, precipitance, rush). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תקיפות (assertiveness, firmness, resoluteness, resolution, vehemence, vigour), פריצות (degeneration, insolence, lawlessness, licentiousness, obscenity, orgy, vice), עושק (exploitation, extortion, oppression, rapacious, robbery), חמסנות (cruelty, oppression, rapacity, robbery, usurpation), חמס (cruelty, injustice, oppression, rapine), אלימות (aggression, terror, terrorism), חזקה (force, might, strength), אנס (compulsion, duress, rape, violation). (various references) | |
Hungarian | erõszak (force, might, outrage), erőszak (big stick, compulsion, dint, force, outrage, violation), durvaság (barbarism, bluntness, boorishness, brusqueness, brutality, coarseness, crassness, earthiness, foulness, roughness, scurrility). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kekerasan, kehebatan (intensity (of excitement). (various references) | |
Italian | violenza (outrageousness, roughness, thuggery, wildness). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 強奪 (extortion, pillage, plunder). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おうぼう (despotism, high-handedness, oppression, tyranny), バイオレンス , しれつ (fierceness, row of teeth, severity), きょうこう (consternation, crime, enforcement, famine, firm, forcing, height of a mirror stand, murder, panic, poor crops, Pope, scare, strong, stubborn, thoracic cavity, thorax, unbending, unyielding, vigorous), ぼうきょ (lack of discrimination, reckless action, unreasonable actions), ぼうりょく (mayhem), ぼうあく, かがい (assault, damaging, evil, extracurricular, harm, heavy taxation, mischief, numerically inferior force, perigone, prostitution quarter, red-light district, small military force, taxation), ごうだつ (extortion, pillage, plunder), ろうぜき (confusion, disorder, outrage, riot), ゲバルト , げきれつ (fervent, fierceness, furious, intenseness, severity, vehement, violent), げきじん (intenseness, keenness, severity, vehemence). (various references) | |
Korean | 폭력 (harassment). (various references) | |
Manx | raghlid (rashness). (various references) | |
Norwegian | overtredelse (contravention, infringement). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iolencevay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | violência (bluster, brunt, fierceness, rabidity, rage, rampage, turbulence, virulence). (various references) | |
Romanian | violenţã (excess, fierceness, force, roughness, rudeness, severity), vehemenţã (acrimony, bitterness, vehemence), silnicie (compulsion), furie (anger, fierceness, frenzy, fury, hastiness, ire, madness, mood, rage, shrew, temper, termagant, wax, wrath), forţã (drive, energy, force, greatness, influence, locomotive power, measure, might, mightiness, nerve, potency, power, punch, sinew, strength, stress, vigor, vigour, vim, weight), exces (abuse, excess, intemperance, nimiety, redundance, redundancy, riot, riotousness, superfluity, surfeit, transgression), brutalitate (brutality, cruelty, roughness, savagery). (various references) | |
Russian | сила (arm, efficacy, energy, force, force of, forcefulness, libido, lustiness, might, nerve, pitch, pith, potency, power, strength, strengths, vehemence, vigor, vigour, vim, virtue), расправа (reprise, shrift), насилие;сила, насилие (assault, brute force, force, outrage, rapine, violation), жестокость (atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, devilry, ferocity, fierceness, inhumanity, savagery, tyranny). (various references) | |
Scottish | lamh-làidir (the strong hand; inflected on the), farrach, fòirneart (force, oppression), fòireigneadh (oppression), ainneart (force, oppression). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zulum (oppression), nasilje (force), napastvovanje, jačina (intensity, power, raciness, rankness, severity, sharpness, sinew, strenght, substantiality, tenacity, volume), žestina (force, rage, severities, sharpness, vehemence). (various references) | |
Spanish | violencia (fury, intemperance, mayhem, rudeness, savageness, savagery, sharpness, wildness). (various references) | |
Swedish | våldsamhet (brunt, ferocity, furry, intensity), våld (force, grasp). (various references) | |
Turkish | zorlama (arm-twisting, coaction, coercion, compulsion, constraint, duress, enforcement, force, impellent, pressure, push, screw, strain, urge), zorbalık (despotism, extortion, fist law, headiness, outrage, overbearance, rough stuff, ruffianism, tyranny), tecâvüz (aggression, an outrage upon decency, assault, breaking in, desecration, encroachment, incursion, infraction, infringement, inroad, intrusion, invasion, offence, offense, outrage, rape, trespass), şiddet (acuteness, edge, fierceness, force, forcefulness, harshness, heaviness, impetuosity, impetus, intenseness, intension, intensity, keenness, lustiness, rigor, rigour, rough stuff, severity, sharpness, smartness, sting, stringency, tempest, vehemence, virulence), ırza tecavüz (an outrage upon decency, criminal assault, incident assault, rape). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | несамовитість (delirium, ecstasy, furor, irresponsibility, tear), насильство (assault, coercion, outrage, rapine), бешкетування. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | tính hung dữ tính chất quá khích bạo lực, sự mãnh liệt (ardency, vehemence, vehemency), sự dữ dội (keenness, rudeness, vehemence, vehemency), sự cưỡng bức. (various references) | |
Welsh | trawster (oppression), trais (force, oppression), gorddin (attack, oppression), angerdd (ardor, force, heat, passion, peculiarity). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | ne. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | multivolam, vi, vim, vimque, violentia, violentiae, violentiam, vires, viri, viribus, virique, viris, virisque, viritas, virium, virum, vis. (various references) |
| Old English | 450-1100 | ecghete. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 17 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Oide gar sitountai sita asebeiaV oinw de paranomw mequskontai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Comedunt panem impietatis et vinum iniquitatis bibunt |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | Thei eten the bred of vnpitousnesse, and the win of wickidnesse drinken. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Proverbs Chapter 4, Verse 17 |
| Cebuano | Kay sila magakaon sa tinapay sa kadautan, Ug magainum sa vino sa pagpanlupig. |
| Chinese | 因 為 他 們 以 奸 惡 喫 餅 、 以 強 暴 喝 酒 。 |
| Croatian | Jer jedu kruh opaèine i piju vino nasilja. |
| Danish | Thi de æder Gudløsheds Brød og drikker Urettens Vin. |
| Dutch | Want zij eten brood der goddeloosheid, en drinken wijn van enkel geweld. |
| Finnish | Niin he syövät leipänään jumalattomuutta, juovat viininään väkivallan tekoja. |
| French | Car c`est le pain de la méchanceté qu`ils mangent, C`est le vin de la violence qu`ils boivent. |
| German | Denn sie nähren sich von gottlosem Brot und trinken vom Wein des Frevels. |
| Haitian Creole | Se nan fè mechanste yo jwenn manje pou yo manje. Se nan fè moun mal yo jwenn diven pou yo bwè. |
| Hungarian | Mert az istentelenségnek étkét eszik, és az erõszaktételnek borát iszszák. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Kejahatan dan kekejaman adalah seperti makanan dan minuman bagi mereka. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Karena mereka itu makan rezeki kejahatan serta minum air anggur kekerasan belaka. |
| Italian | mangiano il pane dell'empietà e bevono il vino della violenza. |
| Maori | No te kino hoki te taro e kainga ana e ratou, no te nanakia te waina e inumia ana e ratou. |
| Norwegian | For de eter ugudelighets brød og drikker voldsgjernings vin. |
| Portuguese | Porque comem o pão da impiedade, e bebem o vinho da violência. |
| Rumanian | cqci ei mqnkncq pkne nelegiuitq, wi beau vin stors cu sila. |
| Russian | ЙВП ПОЙ ЕДСФ ИМЕВ ВЕЪЪБЛПОЙС Й РШАФ ЧЙОП ИЙЭЕОЙС. |
| Spanish | Pues comen pan de impiedad, y beben vino de violencia. |
| Swedish | Ja, ogudaktighet är det bröd som de äta, och våld är det vin som de dricka. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "violence": violences. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "violence": antiviolence, counterviolence, nonviolence, ultraviolence. (additional references) | |
Words containing "violence": counterviolences, nonviolences, ultraviolences. (additional references) | |
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"Violence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Nikolenka, violacea, violance, violen, voilence, volence. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "violence" (pronounced vī"uluns) |
| 7 | v ī" u l u n s | nonviolence. |
| 5 | -u l u n s | ambivalence, ambulance, benevolence, equivalence, excellence, insolence, opulence, pestilence, petulance, prevalence, turbulence, vigilance, virulence. |
| 4 | -l u n s | balance, condolence, counterbalance, imbalance, parlance, resemblance, semblance, silence, surveillance, unbalance, Valence. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, belligerence, beneficence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, essence, evanescence, evidence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, utterance, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-o-v" | |
-1 letter: cineole. | |
-2 letters: cineol, cloven, elevon, enolic, evince, novice, oleine, veloce. | |
-3 letters: cline, clone, clove, colin, coven, covin, eloin, envoi, leone, levin, lieve, liven, nicol, niece, nieve, novel, oleic, olein, olive, ovine, voice, voile. | |
-4 letters: ceil, cine, cion, clon, coil, coin, cole, cone, coni, cove, enol, even, evil, icon, leno, levo, lice, lien, line, lino. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-i-l-n-o-v" | |
+1 letter: covelline, violences. | |
+2 letters: covellines, solvencies. | |
+3 letters: conceivable, conventicle, convertible, covalencies, nonelective, nonviolence. | |
+4 letters: antiviolence, codeveloping, concessively, connectively, conveniently, conventicler, conventicles, convertibles, insolvencies, lovesickness, nonelectives, nonexclusive, nonselective, nonviolences, overcleaning, overclearing, overreliance, uncoercively, voicefulness. | |
+5 letters: coextensively, consecutively, contemplative, conventiclers, convertiplane, countervailed, equivocalness, inconceivable, inconvertible, overbleaching, overreliances, ultraviolence, unconceivable, voicelessness. | |
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