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Violence Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force.
(n.) Injury done to that which is entitled to respect, reverence, or observance; profanation; infringement; unjust force; outrage; assault.
(n.) Ravishment; rape; constupration.
(v. t.) To assault; to injure; also, to bring by violence; to compel.
Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Animals fight to get what they want--food, sex, territory, control, etc.--because there are other animals...
George Lakoff
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