Syn. — To injure; disturb; interrupt; infringe; transgress; profane;
deflour; debauch; dishonor.
Vi`o*la"tion (?), n. [L. violatio: cf. F. violation.] The act of
violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being
violated. Specifically: —
(a) Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of
law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. "The violation of
my faith." Shak.
(b) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous
treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church. Udall.
(c) Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.
(d) Ravishment; rape; outrage. Shak.
Vi"o*la*tive (?), a. Violating, or tending to violate.
Vi"o*la`tor (?), n. [L.] One who violates; an infringer; a profaner; a
ravisher.
Vi"ole (?), n. A vial. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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.