violentlyadv.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 227 (MED) Caym gadered richesse violentliche [?a1475 anon. tr. violentely] by strengþe.

a1425 (c1384) Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xxii. 29 Puplis of the loond..violentli [L. violenter] rauysheden the nedi man, and tourmentiden the pore man.

c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 16 Be þis artycle are þey vnderstonde acursyd þat stelyn or beryn violently out of holy cherche holy cherch good.

1472–3 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1472 1st Roll §55. m. 8 .ccc. persones..brake the prison aforeseid..and there toke oute violently with grete myght and force all the said persones so commytted to warde.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. UUUi^v Howe violently, & without all..pytie they racked that blessed body.

1582 in Bible (Rheims) John vi. Annotations Not compelling or violently forcing any against their will.

1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes ii. §7. 142 What is violently or fraudulently gotten, wilbe lavishly spent.

1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. i. 32 If thou hadst rather be thought to have been violently remov'd, thou hast done thyself this Injury.

1786 E. Burke Articles of Charge against W. Hastings in Wks. (1842) II. 108 After he had..unjustly and violently expelled the rajah Cheyt Sing..from his said lordship.

1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward III. x. 256 To restore the banners of the community, which you took violently from the town.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 23 Shortly after the battle of Hastings, Saxon prelates and abbots were violently deposed.

1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes iv. 339 A party whose own possession is vitious, i.e. acquired from his opponent violently, clandestinely, or in defiance of the recal of a grant during pleasure.

1905 M. H. Austin Let. 15 Aug. in Literary Amer. (1979) 12 The Hebrews in captivity used to..sing about the glories of Jerusalem, from which they have been violently reft.

1951 G. C. Klingel Bay iii. 46 They are born to die violently.

1982 E. D. Gray Patriarchy as Conceptual Trap iv. 109 In the United States..a woman is violently assaulted every eight seconds.

2011 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 18 Mar. a6/1 Soldiers and armed men..violently dispersed a small protest camp.

1443 in E. M. Carus-Wilson Overseas Trade Bristol in Later Middle Ages (1937) 77 (MED) Þei violently ayenst þe lawe putte him in prison in grete duresse and wold no borwes accepte.

1493 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Pynson) vii. xii. sig. B.v^v/1 For alle that thou Clerke haste..but thou yeue it and spende it in gode vse thou witholdest violently as a theef.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 194 (MED) Yef a man and his vif were long tym in that place vyolenly [perh. read vyolently] enclossid, hit wer laffull to tham to do that ded.

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Ei Neither can any Lawe be able violentlye to force the inward thought of man.

1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. ccxvi Luther was in dede condemned at Rome, but his cause not heard, violently and tyrannically.

1670 W. Penn & W. Mead Peoples Liberties Asserted 24 (heading) What might have been offered against the..illegal Proceedings of the Court thereon, had they not violently over-rul'd and stopp'd them.

a1694 J. Tillotson Serm. (1742) VII. 2011 If religion..did force men to be good and virtuous, and no man could be so unless he were thus violently forced, then it would be no virtue in any man to be good.

1754 W. Clarke Serm. Lord Mayor London 6 Many Acts of Power were violently exercised, and many illegal Proceedings were set on foot.

1785 Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 294/1 Her original Letter..advertised to be published in October, 1767, but which was then violently suppressed.

1528 W. Tyndale Obed. Christen Man f. xiiij That I maye know whether thyne interpretacion be the right sence or whether thou iuglest and drawest the scripture violently vnto thy carnall and fleshly purpose.

1534 G. Joye Subuersion Moris False Found. f. xvi^v In so tering & rending out scripture falsely glose violently wrest & blasphemously abuse y^t holygostis wordis to stablessh their heresyes.

1626 W. Gouge Dignitie Chivalrie §1 The forenamed point, The Dignity of Chivalry, is not violently wrested, but properly ariseth out of my Text.

1652 Judgm. Reformed Churches 9 Though he deale lesse vyolently with the text, then doe the frier and the Bishop: [etc.].

1732 W. Whiston Ess. towards restoring True Text Old Test. xii. 263 No Necessity appears of violently obtruding secondary Senses on any of these Predictions.

1773 Monthly Rev. Apr. 311 These..circumstances are the most improbable, and lugged in, the most violently, of any things we ever remember to have either read or seen.

a1830 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) IV. 799 As to pentachords..they are..only chords of the seventh..with a fifth note violently forced in.

1849 J. Ruskin Seven Lamps Archit. iv. 108 You will infect that form itself with the vulgarity of the thing to which you have violently attached it.

1921 R. W. Chambers Beowulf i. i. 10 One piece of evidence..tends to show that Beowulf is not an historic king at all, but that his adventures have been violently inserted amid the historic names of the kings of the Geatas.

?a1425 (a1400) Brut (Corpus Cambr.) 328 Grete..hetes, & þerewiþal a grete pestilens..destroyed & slow, violently & strongly, both men & wymmen without noumbre.

1588 T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. F3 The excellent temperature of the ayre there..neuer so violently hot, as sometimes is vnder & between the Tropikes,..cannot bee vnknowne vnto you.

1612 J. Sylvester tr. Tropheis sig. Ccc^v, in E. Grimeston tr. P. Matthieu Heroyk Life Henry IV The League that late so violently burn'd,To a Cold Feuer now her Frenzie turn'd.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 53 Lest soaking Show'rs shou'd pierce her secret Seat,..Or scorching Suns too violently beat. View more context for this quotation

1724 London Gaz. No. 6306/2 The Small Pox are come out very violently on the Queen Widow.

1745 Life Bampfylde-Moore Carew 34 Violently afflicted with the Sea-sickness.

1802 E. Forster tr. Arabian Nights (1815) II. 172 He wept most violently.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 351 The civil war..broke forth again more violently than before.

1939 A. Thirkell Brandons i. 17 Her gaze was again so meaningly fixed upon her niece's white dress that Mrs Brandon began to blush violently.

1949 H. Wilcox White Stranger ix. 203 I had spent a happy week..discoursing with the village ancients and burning holes in my palate with their violently spiced food.

2004 Metro 5 Nov. (London ed.) 4/4 It made her violently sick and she died a week later.

1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. D5 It is no charitie to giue so violently as may waste the maine of an estate.

a1625 J. Fletcher Island Princesse iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ooo/2 I may be mad, or violentlie drunke.

1704 Boston News-let. 22 May 1/2 Some Bar and Coin'd Gold, which they are Violently Suspected to have gotten & obtained, by Felony and Piracy.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India I. i. i. 3 This splendid fortune had violently attracted the attention of Europe.

1845 C. Dickens Chimes i. 2 A great multitude of persons will be violently astonished.

1869 Eng. Mech. 19 Nov. 224/3 We see it [sc. an ellipse] violently foreshortened.

1921 Westm. Gaz. 26 Aug. 9/2 We are..concerned with abnormally ill-written books, books full of misinformation, books violently pretentious, [etc.].

1966 New Yorker 27 Aug. 34/1 All the stands were alike and violently different.

2004 L. Bedford Charting Secrets vi. 102 The market has violently altered its opinion of the value of the share.