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Harshly vs Violence - What's the difference?

harshly | violence |

As an adverb harshly

is in a harsh manner; severely.

As a noun violence is

extreme force.

harshly

English

Adverb

(er)
  • In a harsh manner; severely.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I.193:
  • Yet, if I name my guilt, 't is not to boast, / None can deem harshlier of me than I deem [...].
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly , and the girls' faces saddened one.}}

    violence

    English

    Noun

  • Extreme force.
  • Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • Widespread fighting.
  • (figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
  • (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
  • Hypernyms

    * (extreme force) force

    Antonyms

    * peace, nonviolence

    See also

    * domestic violence * reverse domestic violence ----