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violation Definition

vio·la·tion (vī′ə lā′s̸hən)

noun

a violating or being violated; specif.,

  1. infringement or breach, as of a law, rule, right, etc.
  2. sexual assault; rape
  3. desecration of something sacred, as a church
  4. interruption; disturbance

Etymology: ME violacion < L violatio

violation Synonyms

violation

n.

  1. Transgression

    infringement, infraction, negligence, misbehavior, nonobservance, violating, shattering, transgressing, forcible trespass, trespassing, contravention, breach, breaking, rupture, flouting; see also crime 1, sin.

  2. Rape

    ravishment, assault, dishonor, defilement, mistreatment, outrage, debasement, degradation, pollution, invasion, subjugation, desecration, doing violence to; see also disgrace 2.

  3. Destruction

    demolition, ruin, devastation; see destruction 1, 2.

violation Law Definition

n

  1. A breaking of the law; an infraction; a transgression.
  2. The act of breaching the law; contravening a duty or right.
  3. An offense against the public welfare.
violation Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • law: A miracle is not a violation of the laws of Nature except for ignorant people.
  • sovereignty: Baghdad flatly rejected the proposal as a violation of sovereignty.
  • aup: Ultraspeed will be the sole arbiter as to what constitutes a violation of the AUP.
  • treaty: China has denied access to the UNHCR for years, in direct violation of this treaty.

Converse of object

  • constitute: To limit this freedom constitutes a grievous violation of a basic right.
  • commit: They provided a 100-page report of carefully documented examples of human rights violations committed by Burmese military over the past twelve months alone.
  • denounce: PARTICIPATE AND MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD Advance the cause of human rights worldwide by denouncing violations.

Adjective modifier

  • flagrant: This legislation is potentially a quite flagrant violation of the First Amendment.
  • alleged: The Parties shall respond to alleged violations of the provisions of this Annex through the procedures provided in Article VIII.
  • gross: Clearly a gross violation of the law of conservation of momentum is implied.
  • blatant: Is this not a blatant violation of the resolutions of the Security Council?
  • human-rights: Are checks of such rooms, to see if they contain illegal drugs, porn, weapons a human-rights violation?
  • cvar: Note you should not ban players who are kicked for cvar violations, and this includes locked cvars being out of range.

Noun used with modifier

  • segmentation: The main fix is to prevent -t option giving a segmentation violation.
  • parole: A parole violation resulted in a spell crossing America as a fugitive on the FBI's most wanted list.
  • anti-trust: While similar analyzes are used to define markets or determine anti-trust violations.
  • ceasefire: Indeed, the large majority of the ceasefire violations are human rights violations against civilians.
  • scaling: However, the relatively stable scaling violations observed around Q 2 ~ 2 GeV 2 in Fig.
  • copyright: What has this got to do with copyright violation?
violation Quotes

Her exotic daydreams do not prevent her from being small-town bourgeois at heart, clinging to conventional ideas orcommitting this or thatconventional violationof the conventional, adultery being a most conventional way to rise above the conventional.

—Nabokov,Vladimir

I am only half there when I am ill, and so there is only half a man to suffer. To suffer in one's whole self is so great a violation, that it is not to be endured.

—Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)

Violation is a synonym for intercourse.

—Dworkin, Andrea

The power of kings and magistrates is nothing else but what is only derivative; transformed and committed to them in trust from the people to the common good of them all, in whom the power yet remains fundamentally, and cannot be taken from them without a violation of their natural birthright.

—Milton,John