infringement

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From infringe + -ment.

The smallest infringement of it would be enough to cause her sleepless nights and anxious days. — Antony Gray,—Gardener, LM (Leslie Moore)
Did not the Government intend to take measures to prevent the infringement of law in British ports? — Great Britain and the American Civil War, Ephraim Douglass Adams
What the ceremony may be is held a profound secret, and the punishment for infringement is death. — The North-West Amazons: Notes of some months spent among cannibal tribes, Thomas Whiffen

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