Riot vs Violence - What's the difference?
riot | violence |
Wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult.
* Shakespeare
The tumultuous disturbance of the public peace by an unlawful assembly of three or more persons in the execution of some private object.
Excessive and expensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry.
* Chaucer
* Alexander Pope
To create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.
(obsolete) To act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, etc.
* Daniel
* Alexander Pope
Extreme force.
Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
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(figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between riot and violence
is that riot is (obsolete) to act in an unrestrained or wanton manner; to indulge in excess of luxury, feasting, etc while violence is (obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation.As nouns the difference between riot and violence
is that riot is wanton or unrestrained behavior; uproar; tumult while violence is extreme force.As a verb riot
is to create or take part in a riot; to raise an uproar or sedition.riot
English
(wikipedia riot)Noun
(en noun)- His headstrong riot hath no curb.
- Venus loveth riot and dispense.
- the lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day
Derived terms
* rioter * run riotVerb
(en verb)- The nuclear protesters rioted outside the military base.
- Now he exact of all, wastes in delight, / Riots in pleasure, and neglects the law.
- No pulse that riots , and no blood that glows.
Anagrams
* * * *violence
English
Noun
Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools