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Infringe   /ɪnfrˈɪndʒ/   Listen
Infringe

verb
(past & past part. infringed; pres. part. infringing)
1.
Go against, as of rules and laws.  Synonyms: conflict, contravene, run afoul.  "This behavior conflicts with our rules"
2.
Advance beyond the usual limit.  Synonyms: encroach, impinge.



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"Infringe" Quotes from Famous Books



... be understood what this poor woman suffered after losing her child. She besought and entreated the soldiers who escorted her to return; but they had their orders, which nothing could cause them to infringe. Immediately on her arrival she set out again on her return to Augsburg, making inquiries in all directions, but could obtain no information of her son, and at last being convinced that he was dead, wept bitterly for him. She had ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... his boyish graces, young William, now a man, was never known to infringe upon the statutes of good-breeding; even though sincerity, his own free will, duty to his neighbour, with many other plebeian virtues and ...
— Nature and Art • Mrs. Inchbald

... current coin, at least to the acute philosophic mind. But has some larger philosophy perhaps something more to say of it? and the power of defining an area, upon which no definition of Injustice, in any conceivable case of act or feeling, can infringe? That is the question upon which the essential argument of The Republic starts—upon a voyage of discovery. It is ...
— Plato and Platonism • Walter Horatio Pater

... confess, 'tis not necessary for Poets to study strict Reason: since they are so used to a greater latitude [pp. 568, 588], than is allowed by that severe Inquisition, that they must infringe their own Jurisdiction, to profess themselves obliged to argue well. I will not, therefore, pretend to say, why I writ this Play, some Scenes in Blank Verse, others in Rhyme; since I have no better a reason to give than Chance, which waited ...
— An English Garner - Critical Essays & Literary Fragments • Edited by Professor Arber and Thomas Seccombe

... that if the United States could see its way to cease to protest against stopping war materials from getting into Germany, they could end the war more quickly—all this, of course, informally; and I say to him that the United States will consider any proposal you will make that does not infringe on a strict neutrality. Violate a rigid neutrality we will not do. And, of course, he does not ask that. I give him more trouble than all the other neutral Powers combined; they all say this. And, on the other side, his war-lord associates in the ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I • Burton J. Hendrick


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