The Collaborative International Dictionary
Violent \Vi"o*lent\, a. [F., from L. violentus, from vis strength, force; probably akin to Gr. ? a muscle, strength.]
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Moving or acting with physical strength; urged or impelled with force; excited by strong feeling or passion; forcible; vehement; impetuous; fierce; furious; severe; as, a violent blow; the violent attack of a disease.
Float upon a wild and violent sea.
--Shak.A violent cross wind from either coast.
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Acting, characterized, or produced by unjust or improper force; outrageous; unauthorized; as, a violent attack on the right of free speech.
To bring forth more violent deeds.
--Milton.Some violent hands were laid on Humphrey's life.
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Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural; abnormal.
These violent delights have violent ends.
--Shak.No violent state can be perpetual.
--T. Burnet.Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as 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 obtained by a tenant wrongfully holding over after warning. They are recoverable in a process of removing.
Syn: Fierce; vehement; outrageous; boisterous; turbulent; impetuous; passionate; severe; extreme.
Wiktionary
n. (context legal English) presumption of a fact that arises from proof of circumstances which necessarily attend such facts
Usage examples of "violent presumption".
It is not a violent presumption to suppose that an art known to the Hindoos 3870 B.
Either Strachey was uninformed, or Pocahontas was married to an Indian--a not violent presumption considering her age and the fact that war between Powhatan and the whites for some time had cut off intercourse between them--or Strachey referred to her marriage with Rolfe, whom he calls by mistake Kocoum.