Evil-doing, injuring, harming; speaking ill.

An instance or occasion of suffering or inflicting vengeance, harm, injury, or the like.

With the and plural agreement: violent people as a class. Also (with the): that which is violent.

The action of damage, v.

The action of harm, v.; harm, injury, hurt. In quot. 1400 = sorrow, grief.

Action arising from, or displaying, hostile or malignant feeling; outrage, injury, harm; insult… In other contexts.

The action of offending (offend, v.); offence, transgression; the (esp. habitual) commission of a sin or crime; an instance of this. Also: †a…

The opposite of service; the rendering of an ill service or ill turn; injury, detriment.

The action of damaging, or fact of being damaged.

the action of subjecting someone or something to violence; an instance of this.

The action of damnifying; infliction of injury or loss. (Now only in legal use.)