These violent delights have violent ends.
Shak.
No violent state can be perpetual.
T. Burnet.
Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void.
Milton.
Violent presumption (Law), presumption of a fact that arises from proof
of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts. — Violent profits
(Scots Law), rents or profits of an estate obtained by a tenant
wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a
process of removing.
Syn. — Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous;
passionate; severe; extreme.
Vi"o*lent, n. An assailant. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.
Vi"o*lent, v. t. [Cf. F. violenter.] To urge with violence. [Obs.]
Fuller.