1. infringement(n = noun.act) violation - an act that disregards an agreement or a right; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment"
is a kind of actus reus, misconduct, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct
has particulars: copyright infringement, infringement of copyright, foul, patent infringement
Derived forms verb infringe2, verb infringe1
2. infringement(n = noun.act) infraction, misdemeanor, misdemeanour, violation - a crime less serious than a felony; Array
is a kind of crime, criminal offence, criminal offense, law-breaking, offence, offense
has particulars: breach of the peace, disorderly behavior, disorderly conduct, disturbance of the peace, false pretence, false pretense, indecent exposure, public nudity, bearing false witness, lying under oath, perjury, sedition
Derived form verb infringe1
1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. [1913 Webster]
"The punishing of this infringement is proper to that
jurisdiction against which the contempt is." [1913 Webster]
2. An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass. [1913 Webster]
N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.
N nonobservance, evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality, infringement, infraction, violation, transgression, piracy, retraction, retractation, repudiation, nullification, protest, forfeiture, lawlessness, disobedience, bad faith, violating, lawless, transgressive, elusive, evasive, unfulfilled &c (fulfill).
N transcursion, transiliency, transgression, trespass, encroachment, infringement, extravagation, transcendence, redundancy, surpassing, beyond the mark, ahead.
copyright infringement, infringement of copyright, patent infringement