Very far am I from believing, that you would employ, or intentionally countenance violence, to prevent such discussion.

[in a violent degree] furiously &c (violence) 173; severely, desperately, tremendously, extravagantly, confoundedly, deucedly, devilishly, with a vengeance; a outrance^, a toute outrance [Fr.].

And, lastly, shun violence as you would a temptation of the devil.

Nathless this violence my spirit cheers With better hope than if she had no wrong; While Love invincible arrays the throng Of dauntless thoughts, and thus harangues his peers:

People went to the church to pray to God and to amuse themselves, forgetting for the moment all the wars and the violence and confusion outside.

L. D. Stavesacre was employed by the ancients as a cathartic, but it operates with so much violence both upwards and downwards, that its internal use has been, among the generality of practitioners, for some time laid aside.