Category:Violation

Vi`o*la"tion, n. Etym: [l. violatio: cf. F. violation.]

Defn: 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.