Violent

a. [Fr. & Pr. violent, Sp., Pg., & It. violento, Lat. violentus, violens, from vis, strength, force.]

1. Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe. “Upon a wild and violent sea.” Shak. “A violent cross-wind.” Milton.
2. Committing outrage; breaking law or right; acting by unjust or improper force; outrageous; assailant; as, a violent attack on the minister. “To bring forth more violent deeds.” Milton.

Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey’s life. Shak. 3. Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal. Violent delights have violent ends. Shak. No violent state can be perpetual. Burnet. Vows made in pain are 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, recoverable in a process of removing, against a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. Syn.—Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; furious; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.