Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VI'O-LENCE, n. [L. violentia.]

1. Physical force; strength of action or motion; as, the violence of a storm; the violence of a blow or of a conflict.
2. Moral force; vehemence. The critic attacked the work with violence.
3. Outrage; unjust force; crimes of all kinds. The earth was filled with violence. Gen. vi.
4. Eagerness; vehemence. You ask with violence. – Shak.
5. Injury; infringement. Offer no violence to the laws, or to the rules of civility.
6. Injury; hurt. Do violence to no man. Luke iii.
7. Ravishment; rape. To do violence to or on, to attack; to murder. But, as it seems, did violence an herself. – Shak. To do violence to, to outrage; to force; to injure. He does violence to his own opinions.