Definition of "violence"

Some others get a rotten wheele, all worne and cast aside,Which covered round about with strawe, and tow, they closely hide:And caryed to some mountaines top, being all with fire light,They hurle it down with violence, when darke appeares the night

1570, Thomas Naogeorgus, translated by Barnabe Googe, The Popish Kingdome

One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.

2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1

Racism, classism, sexism, ethnocentrism, and heterosexism are also wicked problems of structural violence […]

2017, Kevin J. O'Brien, The Violence of Climate Change

The key general point is that the idea of the agendered, asexual, aviolenced worker is a fiction; workers and organizational members do not exist in social abstraction; they are gendered, sexualed and violenced, partly by their position ...

1996, Professor Cathy Nutbrown, Respectful Educators - Capable Learners: Children's Rights and Early Education, SAGE, page 36

And the triad is made complete by she who is violenced by him.

2011, Timothy D. Forsyth, The Alien, AuthorHouse, page 24

He physically violenced my mother, physically violenced me and my brothers, and was sexually abusive to me until I was in second grade.

2012, Megan Sweeney, The Story Within Us: Women Prisoners Reflect on Reading, University of Illinois Press, page 46