? Obs. [f. VIOLENT a.] The state or quality of being violent; violence.

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1692.  Sir W. Hope, Fencing Master, 148. If all that take not away the violentness of his Pursuit.

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1727.  Bailey (vol. II.), Violentness, Violence, Forcibleness, Vehemence, Sharpness, Boisterousness, Outragiousness.

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1737.  Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1756), I. 24. The Violentness of the Seasons.

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1748.  Washington, Jrnl., 4 April, Writ. (1889), I. 5. This day our tent was blown by ye violentness of ye wind.

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