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ultra-violence

ultra-violence is the alternative spelling of ultraviolence.

Meaning of ultraviolence

Noun

ultraviolence (uncountable)

  1. Unnecessary, unprovoked (usually brutal) violence; violent acts simply for the thrill and entertainment of it.
    • I gave them the ultra-violence, the crasting, the dratsing, the old in-out in-out, the lot, right up to this night's veshch with the bugatty starry ptitsa with the mewing kots and koshkas.1962, Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, published 1963, →ISBN, page 69

Questions about ultra-violence

What is ultra-violence the alternative spelling of?
Ultra-violence is the alternative spelling of ultraviolence.

Words near ultra-violence in the dictionary

  1. ultra-prominent
  2. ultra-pure
  3. ultra-refined
  4. ultra-rich
  5. ultra-safe
  6. ultra-violence
  7. ultra-violent
  8. ultra-wealthy
  9. ultrabasic
  10. ultrabasics
  11. ultrabenevolent

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