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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Violation \Vi'o*la"tion\, noun [L. violatio: cf. F. violation.] The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. Specifically: (a) Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc. ''The violation of my faith.'' --Shak. (b) An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church. --Udall. (c) Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance. (d) Ravishment; rape; outrage. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
violation
noun
1: a crime less serious than a felony [syn: {misdemeanor}, {misdemeanour}, {infraction}, {offence}, {offense}, {infringement}]
2: an act that disregards an agreement or a right; "he claimed a violation of his rights under the Fifth Amendment" [syn: {infringement}]
3: entry to another's property without right or permission [syn: {trespass}, {encroachment}, {intrusion}, {usurpation}]
4: a disrespectful act [syn: {irreverence}]
5: the crime of forcing a woman to submit to sexual intercourse against her will [syn: {rape}, {assault}, {ravishment}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
171 Moby Thesaurus words for "violation": aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, abomination, abuse, abuse of office, abusing, assault, atrocity, attack, bad faith, battering, befoulment, betrayal, blasphemy, breach, breach of contract, breach of faith, breach of privilege, breach of promise, breach of trust, break, breaking, butchery, civil disobedience, contravention, conversion, corrupt administration, crime, criminal assault, criminality, debasement, debasing, debauchment, defacement, defalcation, defilement, defiling, defloration, deflowering, deflowerment, degradation, degrading, delict, delinquency, desecrating, desecration, despoilment, deviance, deviancy, devirgination, disgrace, dishonor, dishonoring, disobedience, disorderliness, disregard, diversion, embezzlement, encroachment, felony, forcible seizure, fouling, frowardness, ignominy, ignoring, ill-treatment, ill-usage, ill-use, illegality, improperness, impropriety, inappropriateness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, indiscipline, indocility, infamy, infraction, infringement, infringing, injury, insubordination, intractability, killing, lawbreaking, lawlessness, laying waste, looting, maladministration, malfeasance, malpractice, maltreatment, malversation, massacre, misapplication, misappropriation, misconduct, misdemeanor, misemployment, misfeasance, mishandling, mismanagement, mistreatment, misusage, misuse, molestation, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, obstreperousness, offense, onslaught, outrage, passive resistance, peculation, perversion, pilfering, pillaging, pity, pollution, poor stewardship, priapism, profanation, profaning, prostitution, rape, ravage, ravishment, recusancy, riot, rioting, sacking, sacrilege, scandal, seducement, seduction, sexual assault, sexual possession, shame, sinfulness, slaughter, sowing with salt, taking, terrible thing, tort, transgression, trespass, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, unfitness, unfittingness, unlawfulness, unrighteousness, unruliness, unseemliness, unsubmissiveness, unsuitability, violating, violence, waywardness, wickedness, willful disobedience, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongfulness, wrongness
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