WordNet
public violence
n. a public act of violence by an unruly mob [syn: riot]
Usage examples of "public violence".
This was a kind of irregular justice, which, though necessary in savage times, could hardly fail to end in a feud, and a feud once kindled among an idle people with no variety of pursuits to divert their thoughts, burnt on for ages either sullenly glowing in secret mischief, or openly blazing into public violence.
The guards were ordered to protect these innocent people and their neighbors against any misdirected public violence.
He says, quite rightly, she translated frostily, that next time you will be arrested for public violence.
John the Spaniard was quick, perhaps no stranger to such southern public violence.