violence = 'personal or social domination of any kind'

[Jonathan Lighter]

Not in OED but common among postmodern sociologists:

1990 Pierre Bourdieu _The Logic of Practice_  (R. Nice, trans.) [Stanford:
Stanford U. P.] 127: [O]vert violence, that of the usurer or the ruthless
master, is collectively disapproved of and is liable to provoke either a
violent riposte or the flight of the victim.

The French text was written in 1980.
JL

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