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Infringement   /ɪnfrˈɪndʒmənt/   Listen
Infringement

noun
1.
An act that disregards an agreement or a right.  Synonym: violation.
2.
A crime less serious than a felony.  Synonyms: infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation.



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"Infringement" Quotes from Famous Books



... are looked upon as a source of much profit. So important has this been considered, that in the international treaties between the States bordering upon the Chesapeake, there are several clauses or articles relating to them that limit the right of shooting to certain parties. An infringement of this right, some three or four years ago, led to serious collisions between the gunners of Philadelphia and Baltimore. So far was the dispute carried, that schooners armed, and filled with armed men, cruised for ...
— The Hunters' Feast - Conversations Around the Camp Fire • Mayne Reid

... orator than that of the audience, and all eulogistic ones of whatever description, be pronounced in the chapel of the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, and all statues be set up within the grounds of the Institution for the Blind. Let the penalty for infringement in the one case be to read the last President's Message, and in the other to look at the Webster statue one hour a day, for a term not so long as to violate the spirit of the law ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 6, No. 38, December, 1860 • Various

... be an infringement on her liberty. She did not take into account how much liberty she was securing. Only the latest step, the newest freedom, ...
— Sister Carrie • Theodore Dreiser

... sections referred to covered a fixed, unchangeable figure, that the protection of letters patent did not extend to any variation, however slight, but that such variation constituted a new design, might be covered by a new patent, and might safely be used without infringement of the first. This, it is said, is the correct theory of the law, and has been the uniform adjudication ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various

... of virtue. Thus he becomes a faithful servant both of the Government and his employer, and a really effective unit in the protection of the Park. The lessee, in turn, will neither practice nor tolerate any infringement of the laws which would imperil his lease, nor deplete of fish and game a country which he intends to revisit. He would not necessarily be actuated by these motives if he entered the Park casually and considered nothing but his own sport or pleasure. It may be ...
— Supplement to Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador • William Wood


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