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Meanings of vehemence in English
Synonyms
Examples for "violence"
Examples for "violence"
1
Yet Rue's words made sense: one could not oppose violence with violence.
2
It's not just about state violence in the form of police violence.
3
A deal would not eliminate violence, the Brussels-based International Crisis Group said.
4
But collective action against police violence has itself led to police violence.
5
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former colonial power France condemned the violence.
1
The clamor and noise in the street below had increased in fury.
2
In her place was a savage thing made of fury and violence.
3
The frail building was literally rocking in the fury of the storm.
4
It did not long delay; on it came in its majestic fury.
5
They were tragic in the fury of their absorption in their work.
1
Pirate gangs had been growing in number, size and ferocity for years.
2
There was no time for anything but speed and violence and ferocity.
3
The more interest in the meetings, the more ferocity and vileness outside.
4
But the state that was first in Germany was first in ferocity.
5
Dorin shuddered again at the ferocity contained in this slim young form.
1
Finance measures lost their interest in the fierceness of the political combat.
2
The heavy scowl smoothed away but the fierceness lingered in his eyes.
3
There was the same hatred, the same demoniac fierceness in it now.
4
Then even the gods were terrified at the fierceness of the conflict.
5
I am fierceness, and the mountain wind; clean pasture, and wild rest.
1
The wildness of the boy that had persisted in me was gone.
2
We are not so threatened by the power and wildness within you.
3
Roaring in her ears, faces tumbling, lifting in a wildness about her.
4
Next day it was to appear to her in all its wildness.
5
The scenery has a wildness that approaches to that of the Rhine.
1
Hence the furiousness of his spirit now.
2
I do know firsthand the furiousness of loose rock so I don't take it lightly by any means.
3
The furiousness of the attacks in this region led military critics to believe that the fall of the city of Riga was imminent.
4
I first climbed inside the tC, a sport coupe that I imagined might impart a certain fast-and-furiousness into the life of a young reporter.
Usage of vehemence in English
1
Novelty captivates the superficial and thoughtless; vehemence delights the discontented and turbulent.
2
In more political mid-century work he blows and drums with impressive vehemence.
3
His temper partook of the general strength and vehemence of his character.
4
The old boatswain and the Portygees swung upon the lines with vehemence.
5
He was startled by the vehemence of Jack's reaction to the situation.
6
The multitude enjoyed its sharp, short, stinging paragraphs; its vim and vehemence.
7
I always distrusted the vehemence with which he took the Confederate side.
8
The Comtesse smiled through her tears at the vehemence of her friend.
9
Sage Jeannin did his best to pacify the vehemence of the commissioners.
10
But now this natural vehemence was restrained by great and sincere piety.
11
Hazen had shut the door with such vehemence that it had rebounded.
12
He didn't seem the least bit disconcerted or distressed by her vehemence.
13
He paused a moment, then went on in a climax of vehemence.
14
England had plunged into the new order of things with headlong vehemence.
15
But Gatien now rode up with the vehemence of a duped lover.
16
We began to sing one of our marching songs with deliberate vehemence:
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Vehemence through the time
Vehemence across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common