contraventionn.
/kɒntrəˈvɛnʃən/ a. The action of contravening or going counter to; violation, infringement, transgression.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > breach of rule or custom
breacha1382
transgression1426
violation1433
prevarication1561
forfeiture1575
contravention1579
infringement1628
temeration1641
contravening1645
infraction1673
society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > [noun] > violation of law
unlawOE
wrongc1270
surfeitc1400
violation1433
wrongdoing1480
unlawfulnessa1500
transgressing1535
contravention1579
anomy1595
non-reason1597
contravening1645
law-breaking1881
1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin xvi. 964 The Pope should be bound to..forgiue him the penaltie of contrauenion.
1650 J. Row & J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) 546 Saul did not personallie sweare to the Gibeonites, yet his contravention..plagued his subjects with three years famine.
a1704 J. Locke Paraphr. & Notes Epist. Paul to Romans (1707) 82 A setled Contravention to his Precepts cannot be suffer'd by the..Governour of the World.
1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in Misc. Prose & Verse 172 Contraventions to the Laws of the Land.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xxvii. 87 Offensive and undutiful, and in direct contravention of the church catechism.
1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1869) viii. 267 From the contravention of the chronological order.
b. Scots Law. (See quot. 1861.)
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1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) Contravention..is most frequently applied to an act done by an heir of entail in opposition to the provisions of the deed..or to acts of molestation or outrage committed by a person in violation of lawborrows.
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