reign of violence

noun

Roget 738: laxity; laxness, looseness, slackness; toleration etc. (lenity) 740; freedom etc. 748.    anarchy, interregnum; relaxation; loosening etc. v.; remission; dead letter, brutum fulmen [Lat.], misrule; license, licentiousness; insubordination etc. (disobedience) 742; lynch law etc. (illegality) 964; nihilism, reign of violence.    [Deprivation of power] dethronement, deposition, usurpation, abdication.    ... show more

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