over-violentadj.

a1460 Knyghthode & Bataile (Pembr. Cambr. 243) 1453 (MED) For if the cours be ouer violent Or ouer deep, gret peril in that flood is..hevy men, pagis, and cariage Ar drowned oftyn tyme in such a rage.

1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido iv. i The motion was so ouer violent.

1655 W. Sales Theophania i. 13 The over-violent force he used afterwards to recover the shore by swiming.

1681 J. Dryden Absalom & Achitophel 18 So over Violent, or over Civil, That every man, with him, was God or Devil.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 141 How many crack'd by the over violent Heat of the Sun, being set out too hastily.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure II. 163 I soon receiv'd the dear relief of nature from these over-violent strains and provocations.

1865 J. W. Barber Loyal West 490 Two young men..who by overviolent exertion brought on a recurrence of bleeding.

1890 Science 25 July 47/2 By defect of resistance and over-violent radiation.

1941 Economica 8 14 By an over-violent reaction against the older schools, the teaching..was for some years almost entirely confined to the scientific subjects.

1977 Internat. Affairs 53 322 A bloody clash in which an over-violent Colonel Amin played a part.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xxvii. §3. 619 To draw all matters ouer violently to mine owne computation.

1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. vi. 163 We are called to act..neither lukewarmly nor over-violently.

1997 Times (Nexis) 2 May Some in the audience would have found Schumann's typical Eusebius/ Florestan, introvert/ extrovert contrasts over-violently drawn.