Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Excessively violent or passionate; prone to violence or abuse.
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Examples
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Does he become over-violent in the manifestation of his regard, she will flee away, if she can, to secret hiding-places.
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This is a disjointed, overlong, over-violent, badly edited movie … admittedly with a kick-ass funky soundtrack.
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Men over-violent in their dispositions are, for the most part, as changeable in them.
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Jack Straw is the same tale told by a narrator, with movie-style quotes and full-on ominous foreboding, and still sympathy for Jack the friend-killer (makes it seem like over-greedy over-violent Shannon's own fault), and a touch of titilating gangsta-life-decadence
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Sunne beginneth to heate extreamely: and as over-much colde (that unhappy night) was mine offence, so let not over-violent warmth be now my utter ruine and death.
The Decameron 2004
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A great many go there to die, and some to be partially recovered and then die; for I knew two young men, so far recovered as to think themselves well, or nearly so, who by over-violent exertion brought on a recurrence of bleeding, and died.
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The first Demon is a little over-violent and restless but he will improve.
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That he, himself, believed it so, it is not ours to doubt, for all that we may be more prone to agree with the opinion afterwards expressed by Fanfulla and the friar -- and deeply resented by the Count -- that in leaping to his feet in over-violent haste his wound re-opened, and the pain of this, combining with the weak condition that resulted from his loss of blood, had caused his sudden faintness.
Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912
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By nature “so over-violent or over-civil that every man with him was God or devil,” he had erected Froude into his demon incarnate.
The Life of Froude Paul, Herbert 1905
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By nature "so over-violent or over-civil that every man with him was God or devil," he had erected Froude into his demon incarnate.
The Life of Froude 1894
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