Violation
[vaɪə'leɪʃn] or [,vaɪə'leʃən]
Definition
(noun.) an act that disregards an agreement or a right; 'he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment'.
Edited by Faye--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.
(n.) Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc.
(n.) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church.
(n.) Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.
(n.) Ravishment; rape; outrage.
Edited by Elena
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Infringement, transgression, breaking, breach, non-observance.[2]. Profanation, desecration, pollution.[3]. Ravishment, ravishing, rape, constupration, STUPRATION, defloration, defilement.
Editor: Ozzie
Examples
- It is really too great a violation of decency, honour, and interest, for him to be guilty of. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She clung to Ursula, who, through long usage was inured to this violation of a dark, uncreated, hostile world. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I should have thought it a gross violation of duty and respect. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- The Mexican general reminded us that it was a violation of the truce for us to be there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Besides, it is a violation of our agreement. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His knees tightened to bronze as he hung above her soft face, whose lips parted and whose eyes dilated in a strange violation. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To remove a man who has committed no misdemeanour, from the parish where he chooses to reside, is an evident violation of natural liberty and justice. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The publication of his order in the press was in violation of War Department orders and also of mine. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Such regulations may, no doubt, be considered as in some respect a violation of natural liberty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She sat convulsed with fury and violation, speechless, like a stricken pythoness of the Greek oracle. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He and his hopes were accidentals, violations to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Emily