violation
//ˌvaɪ.əˈleɪ.ʃən//
Forms
- Plural
- violations
Definitions
1.The act or an instance of violating or the condition of being violated.
- In this situation, the agent’s lack of knowledge is diagnosed as a violation of the modalized tracking condition, which is relativized to the content-specific method of belief formation employed.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2878
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French violation, from Latin violātiō (“injury, profanation”), from violō (“to treat with violence; to maltreat; to violate, defile, profane”).
Morphologically violate + -ion.