violence = 'personal or social domination of any kind' (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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A contemporary example:

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2010/11/unveiled-new-defi
nitions-of-violence-and-civilisation.html



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> Not in OED but common among postmodern sociologists:
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> 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.
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> The French text was written in 1980.
> JL
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