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violation
CIDE DICTIONARY
violation, n. [L. violatio: cf. F. violation.].
The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
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, wrongnessROGET THESAURUS
violation
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).Impurity
N impurity, uncleanness, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency, impudicity, obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry, double entente, equivoque, concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity, pruriency, lechery, lasciviency, lubricity, Sadism, sapphism, incontinence, intrigue, faux pas, amour, amourette, gallantry, debauchery, libertinish, libertinage, fornication, liaison, wenching, venery, dissipation, seduction, defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape, incest, prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom, adultery, advoutry, crim, con, free love, seraglio, harem, brothel, bagnio, stew, bawdyhouse, cat house, lupanar, house of ill fame, bordel, bordello, impure, unclean, not to be mentioned to ears polite, immodest, shameless, indecorous, indelicate, indecent, Fescennine, loose, risque, coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic, concupiscent, prurient, lickerish, rampant, lustful, carnal, carnal-minded, lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious, Paphian, voluptuous, goatish, must, musty, unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute, of loose character, of easy virtue, frail, gay, riggish, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated, no better than she should be, on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose, adulterous, incestuous, bestial.Undueness
N undueness, malum prohibitum, impropriety, illegality, falseness, emptiness of title, invalidity of title, illegitimacy, loss of right, disfranchisement, forfeiture, usurpation, tort, violation, breach, encroachment, presumption, assumption, seizure, stretch, exaction, imposition, lion's share, usurper, pretender, undue, unlawful, unconstitutional, illicit, unauthorized, unwarranted, disallowed, unallowed, unsanctioned, unjustified, unentitled, disentitled, unqualified, disqualified, unprivileged, unchartered, illegitimate, bastard, spurious, supposititious, false, usurped, tortious, undeserved, unmerited, unearned, unfulfilled, forfeited, disfranchised, improper, unmeet, unfit, unbefitting, unseemly, unbecoming, misbecoming, seemless, contra bonos mores, not the thing, out of the question, not to be thought of, preposterous, pretentious, would-be, filius nullius.Dereliction of Duty
N dereliction of duty, fault, sin, non-observance, non-performance, neglect, relaxation, infraction, violation, transgression, failure, evasion, dead letter.For further exploring for "violation" in Webster Dictionary Online