Definitions for violation
ˌvaɪ əˈleɪ ʃənvi·o·la·tion

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:4.5 / 2 votes

1. misdemeanor, misdemeanour, infraction, violation, infringementnoun

   a crime less serious than a felony

2. violation, infringementnoun

   an act that disregards an agreement or a right

   "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment"

3. trespass, encroachment, violation, intrusion, usurpationnoun

   entry to another's property without right or permission

4. irreverence, violationnoun

   a disrespectful act

5. rape, violation, assault, ravishmentnoun

   the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will

WiktionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. violationnoun

   The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.

2. Etymology: From violation, from violatio, from violare

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1. violation

   A violation is an act of breaking, disobeying or disregarding a law, rule, agreement, or standard. It refers to an action that breaches or infringes upon the accepted norms of behavior, moral conduct, or contractual stipulations. Violation could possibly result in penalty or punishment under legal, social or ethical regulations.

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1. Violationnoun

   the act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated

2. Violationnoun

   infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc

3. Violationnoun

   an act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church

4. Violationnoun

   interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance

5. Violationnoun

   ravishment; rape; outrage

6. Etymology: [L. violatio: cf. F. violation.]

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1. Violation

   Violation is the second studio album by the late-1970s American hard rock band Starz, released in 1977.

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1. avolition

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1. Alex

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   Mark

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   Karen

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of violation in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of violation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of violation in a Sentence

1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:

   Woe to that nation whose literature is disturbed by the intervention of power. Because that is not just a violation against freedom of print, it is the closing down of the heart of the nation, a slashing to pieces of its memory. The nation ceases to be mindful of itself, it is deprived of its spiritual unity, and despite a supposedly common language, compatriots suddenly cease to understand one another.

2. Kevin Lundberg:

   The state shouldn't come in and say to the individual businessman, 'You must violate your religious — and I'll say religious-slash-moral convictions. This baker (Silva), thought that was a violation of their moral convictions. The other baker, which we all know very well because of all the stories, clearly that was a violation of their religious convictions.

3. Harlan F. Stone:

   If a juror feels that the statute involved in any criminal offence is unfair, or that it infringes upon the defendant's natural god-given unalienable or constitutional rights, then it is his duty to affirm that the offending statute is really no law at all and that the violation of it is no crime at all, for no one is bound to obey an unjust law.

4. Simone de Beauvoir, "A Very Easy Death":

   There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.

5. P. J. O'Rourke:

   I'm a registered Republican and consider socialism a violation of the American principle that you shouldn't stick your nose in other people's business except to make a buck.

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