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VIOLATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Entry to another's property without right or permission
Synonyms:
encroachment; intrusion; trespass; usurpation; violation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("violation" is a kind of...):
actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "violation"):
inroad (an encroachment or intrusion)
Derivation:
violate (violate the sacred character of a place or language)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A disrespectful act
Synonyms:
irreverence; violation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("violation" is a kind of...):
evil; immorality; iniquity; wickedness (morally objectionable behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "violation"):
blasphemy; desecration; profanation; sacrilege (blasphemous behavior; the act of depriving something of its sacred character)
Derivation:
violate (violate the sacred character of a place or language)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A crime less serious than a felony
Synonyms:
infraction; infringement; misdemeanor; misdemeanour; violation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("violation" is a kind of...):
crime; criminal offence; criminal offense; law-breaking ((criminal law) an act punishable by law; usually considered an evil act)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "violation"):
breach of the peace; disorderly behavior; disorderly conduct; disturbance of the peace (any act of molesting, interrupting, hindering, agitating, or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled)
false pretence; false pretense ((law) an offense involving intent to defraud and false representation and obtaining property as a result of that misrepresentation)
indecent exposure; public nudity (vulgar and offensive nakedness in a public place)
bearing false witness; lying under oath; perjury (criminal offense of making false statements under oath)
sedition (an illegal action inciting resistance to lawful authority and tending to cause the disruption or overthrow of the government)
Sense 4
Meaning:
An act that disregards an agreement or a right
Example:
he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment
Synonyms:
infringement; violation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("violation" is a kind of...):
actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "violation"):
copyright infringement; infringement of copyright (a violation of the rights secured by a copyright)
foul (an act that violates the rules of a sport)
patent infringement (violation of the rights secured by a patent)
Derivation:
violate (fail to agree with; be in violation of; as of rules or patterns)
Sense 5
Meaning:
The crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
Synonyms:
assault; rape; ravishment; violation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("violation" is a kind of...):
sex crime; sex offense; sexual abuse; sexual assault (a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "violation"):
date rape (rape in which the rapist is known to the victim (as when they are on a date together))
carnal abuse; statutory rape (sexual intercourse with a person (girl or boy) who has not reached the age of consent (even if both parties participate willingly))
Derivation:
violate (force (someone) to have sex against their will)
Context examples:
She was obliged to recollect that her seeing the letter was a violation of the laws of honour, that no one ought to be judged or to be known by such testimonies, that no private correspondence could bear the eye of others, before she could recover calmness enough to return the letter which she had been meditating over, and say—Thank you.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
EXAMPLE(S): obtain informed consent, verify eligibility criteria, enroll, registration to a study, randomize, assignment to a treatment arm, start of on-study period, complete study visits, end of on-study period, exit trial, break treatment blind, protocol violation, premature withdrawal
(Defined Study Subject Milestone, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
But the violation of marriage, or any other unchastity, was never heard of; and the married pair pass their lives with the same friendship and mutual benevolence, that they bear to all others of the same species who come in their way, without jealousy, fondness, quarrelling, or discontent.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
EXAMPLE(S): assignment to a treatment arm, registration to a study, start of on-study period, end of on-study period, obtain informed consent, verify eligibility criteria, enroll, randomize, complete study visits, exit trial, break treatment blind, protocol violation, premature withdrawal
(Defined Administrative Activity, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
EXAMPLE(S): obtain informed consent, verify eligibility criteria, enroll, registration to a study, randomize, assignment to a treatment arm, start of on-study period, complete study visits, end of on-study period, exit trial, break treatment blind, protocol violation, premature withdrawal.
(Performed Study Subject Milestone, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
EXAMPLE(S): assignment to a treatment arm, registration to a study, start of on-study period, end of on-study period, obtain informed consent, verify eligibility criteria, enroll, randomize, complete study visits, exit trial, break treatment blind, protocol violation, premature withdrawal, etc.
(Performed Administrative Activity, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
I doubted not—never doubted—that if Mr. Reed had been alive he would have treated me kindly; and now, as I sat looking at the white bed and overshadowed walls—occasionally also turning a fascinated eye towards the dimly gleaming mirror—I began to recall what I had heard of dead men, troubled in their graves by the violation of their last wishes, revisiting the earth to punish the perjured and avenge the oppressed; and I thought Mr. Reed's spirit, harassed by the wrongs of his sister's child, might quit its abode—whether in the church vault or in the unknown world of the departed—and rise before me in this chamber.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At such moments she found justification for her treason to her standards, for her violation of her own high ideals, and, most of all, for her tacit disobedience to her mother and father.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Every lingering struggle in his favour grew fainter and fainter; and in farther justification of Mr. Darcy, she could not but allow that Mr. Bingley, when questioned by Jane, had long ago asserted his blamelessness in the affair; that proud and repulsive as were his manners, she had never, in the whole course of their acquaintance—an acquaintance which had latterly brought them much together, and given her a sort of intimacy with his ways—seen anything that betrayed him to be unprincipled or unjust—anything that spoke him of irreligious or immoral habits; that among his own connections he was esteemed and valued—that even Wickham had allowed him merit as a brother, and that she had often heard him speak so affectionately of his sister as to prove him capable of some amiable feeling; that had his actions been what Mr. Wickham represented them, so gross a violation of everything right could hardly have been concealed from the world; and that friendship between a person capable of it, and such an amiable man as Mr. Bingley, was incomprehensible.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
