infringement

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=fringe=ment

CIDE DICTIONARY

infringement, n. 

•  The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution.  [1913 Webster]

  "The punishing of this infringement is proper to that
  jurisdiction against which the contempt is."  [1913 Webster]
•  An encroachment on a patent, copyright, or other special privilege; a trespass.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

infringement

adoption, appropriation, arrogation, assumption, bad faith, bankruptcy, borrowed plumes, breach, breach of contract, breach of faith, breach of law, breach of privilege, breach of promise, breach of trust, breakage, breakdown, breaking, civil disobedience, collapse, contravention, copying, crack-up, crippling, damage, derivation, deriving, destruction, detriment, dilapidation, disablement, disobedience, disrepair, encroachment, entrance, entrenchment, frowardness, harm, hobbling, hurt, hurting, imitation, impairment, impingement, imposition, incapacitation, incursion, indiscipline, indocility, infiltration, influx, infraction, injection, injury, inroad, insinuation, insubordination, interference, interjection, interloping, interposition, interposure, interruption, intervention, intractability, intrusion, invasion, irruption, lawbreaking, lawlessness, loss, maiming, mayhem, mischief, mocking, mutilation, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobedience, obtrusion, offense, overstepping, passive resistance, pasticcio, pastiche, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, playing God, recusancy, ruination, ruinousness, sabotage, scathe, seizure, sickening, simulation, spoiling, taking, transgression, trespass, trespassing, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, unlawful entry, unsubmissiveness, usurpation, violation, violation of law, waywardness, weakening, willful disobedience

ROGET THESAURUS

infringement

Disobedience

N disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, Fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, Spartacus, Masaniello, Wat Tyler, Jack Cade, ringleader, disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden, seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, unthread the rude eye of rebellion.

Nonobservance

N nonobservance, evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality, infringement, infraction, violation, transgression, piracy, retraction, retractation, repudiation, nullification, protest, forfeiture, lawlessness, disobedience, bad faith, violating, lawless, transgressive, elusive, evasive, unfulfilled &c (fulfill).

Transcursion

N transcursion, transiliency, transgression, trespass, encroachment, infringement, extravagation, transcendence, redundancy, surpassing, beyond the mark, ahead.