Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Violence \Vi"o*lence\, n. [F., fr. L. violentia. See {Violent}.]
   1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited
      action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity;
      force.

            That seal You ask with such a violence, the king,
            Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me.
                                                  --Shak.

            All the elements At least had gone to wrack,
            disturbed and torn With the violence of this
            conflict.                             --Milton.

   2. Injury done to that which is entitled to respect,
      reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement;
      unjust force; outrage; assault.

            Do violence to do man.                --Luke iii.
                                                  14.

            We can not, without offering violence to all
            records, divine and human, deny an universal deluge.
                                                  --T. Burnet.

            Looking down, he saw The whole earth filled with
            violence.                             --Milton.

   3. Ravishment; rape; constupration.

   {To do violence on}, to attack; to murder. ``She . . . did
      violence on herself.'' --Shak.

   {To do violence to}, to outrage; to injure; as, he does
      violence to his own opinions.

   Syn: Vehemence; outrage; fierceness; eagerness; violation;
        infraction; infringement; transgression; oppression.