Vi`o*la"tion (?), n. [L. violatio: cf. F. violation.]
The act of violating, treating with violence, or injuring; the state of being violated.
Specifically: --
(a)
Infringement; transgression; nonobservance; as, the violation of law or positive command, of covenants, promises, etc.
"The
violation of my faith."
Shak.
(b)
An act of irreverence or desecration; profanation or contemptuous treatment of sacred things; as, the violation of a church.
Udall.
(c)
Interruption, as of sleep or peace; disturbance.
(d)
Ravishment; rape; outrage.
Shak.
© Webster 1913.