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Violent vs Accost - What's the difference?

violent | accost |

In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between violent and accost

is that violent is (obsolete) an assailant while accost is (obsolete) to adjoin; to lie alongside.

As verbs the difference between violent and accost

is that violent is (archaic) to urge with violence while accost is to approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.

As nouns the difference between violent and accost

is that violent is (obsolete) an assailant while accost is (rare) address; greeting.

As an adjective violent

is involving extreme force or motion.

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.
    • ----

    accost

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request.
  • *{{quote-news, date = 21 August 2012
    • , first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = The Missouri prosecutors' case against Clemons, based partly on incriminating testimony given by his co-defendants, was that Clemons was part of a group of four youths who accosted the sisters on the Chain of Rocks Bridge one dark night in April 1991. }}
  • (obsolete) To join side to side; to border; hence, to sail along the coast or side of.
  • * So much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea. - Fuller
  • (obsolete) To approach; to come up to.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • To speak to first; to address; to greet.
  • * Milton
    • Him, Satan thus accosts .
  • * 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
    • She approached the basin, and bent over it as if to fill her pitcher; she again lifted it to her head. The personage on the well-brink now seemed to accost her; to make some request—"She hasted, let down her pitcher on her hand, and gave him to drink."
  • (obsolete) To adjoin; to lie alongside.
  • * Spenser
    • the shores which to the sea accost
  • * Fuller
    • so much [of Lapland] as accosts the sea
  • To solicit sexually.

    • Derived terms

    * accostment

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (rare) Address; greeting.

    • Anagrams

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