violation
noun/ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
Etymology Borrowed from Middle French violation, from Latin violātiō (“injury, profanation”), from violō (“to treat with violence; to maltreat; to violate, defile, profane”). Morphologically violate + -ion.
› The act or an instance of violating or the…
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An infraction or a failure to follow a rule.
- In this situation, the agent’s lack of knowledge is diagnosed as a violation of the modalized tracking condition, which is relativized to the content-specific method of belief formation employed.2007 June 7, Kelly Becker, “Epistemic luck and the generality problem”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 3, →DOI:
- William Davis Jr. admitted he had been drinking and driving, but he said he shouldn’t have been caught. Even though police had issued a BOLO or “be on the lookout” for his car and an officer testified Davis made several traffic violations, he said there wasn’t enough probable cause for the initial traffic stop that turned into a DUI. […] Davis said he should not have been stopped because the BOLO for his car was not checked out before he was pulled over, but Justice Cornelia Clark pointed out that shouldn’t matter.2015 September 10, “Knoxville attorney admits to DUI, argues he shouldn’t have been pulled over”, in WATE, archived from the original on 20 Aug 2016:
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Euphemistic Rape; sexual activity forced on another person without their consent.
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Slang An insult, especially a severe one.
- Nahh saying that to bro is actually a violation 💀
- Synonyms
- transgression, desecration
- Antonyms
- compliance, obedience
- Derived terms
- access violation, carrying violation, civil violation, half-court violation, hog line violation, lane violation, moving violation, parking violation, sharing violation, time violation, traffic violation, vio