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Currish vs Violent - What's the difference?

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Currish is a related term of violent.


As adjectives the difference between currish and violent

is that currish is pertaining to a cur or mongrel while violent is involving extreme force or motion.

As a verb violent is

(archaic) to urge with violence.

As a noun violent is

(obsolete) an assailant.

currish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a cur or mongrel.
  • Ignoble, mean-spirited.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , II.4:
    • more enfierced through his currish play, / Him sternely grypt, and haling to and fro, / To ouerthrow him strongly did assay […].
  • *, II.1.3:
  • *:God's vengeance, and all the plagues of Egypt come not upon us, since we are so currish one towards another, so respectless of God and our neighbours, and by our crying sins pull these miseries upon our own heads.

    • Synonyms

    * doggish

    violent

    English

    Adjective

    (en-adj)
  • Involving extreme force or motion.
    • A violent wind ripped the branch from the tree.
  • Involving physical conflict.
    • We would rather negotiate, but we will use violent means if needed.
  • Likely to use physical force.
    • The escaped prisoners are considered extremely violent .
  • Intensely vivid.
    • The artist expressed his emotional theme through violent colors.
  • (obsolete) Produced or effected by force; not spontaneous; unnatural.
  • * Shakespeare
    • These violent delights have violent ends.
  • * T. Burnet
    • No violent state can be perpetual.
  • * Milton
    • Ease would recant / Vows made in pain, as violent and void.

    Antonyms

    * peaceful

    Related terms

    * violence

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) To urge with violence.
    • (Fuller)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) An assailant.
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