Meanings
adjectiveviolous (comparative more violous, superlative most violous)
comparative more violous · superlative most violous
- obsoleteviolent
You are so violous: This I'm resolv'd, If she be a Whore once, I'll renounce her
1623 (first performance), John Fletcher, William Rowley, “The Maid in the Mill”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)
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