KJV Dictionary - violence
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VIOLENCE
VI'OLENCE, 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. 6.
4. Eagerness; vehemence.
You ask with violence.
5. Injury; infringement. Offer no violence to the laws, or to the rules of civility.
6. Injury; hurt.
Do violence to no man. Luke 3.
7. Ravishment; rape.
To do violence to or on, to attack; to murder.
But, as it seems, did violence on herself.
To do violence to, to outrage; to force; to injure. He does violence to his own opinions.
VI'OLENCE, v.t. To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence. Little used.
Definition from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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