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    For while house arrest is a definitive infringement upon one's liberty, presumably it is also intended to be something of a humiliation.†  (source)
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    But each such error reflected negatively on his parents' guidance and infringed on the community's sense of order and success.†  (source)
    infringed = went against a law, rule, or usual limit
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    Agloe began as a paper town created to protect against copyright infringement.†  (source)
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    Gate security was to make sure that there were parking facilities for station employees and that guests weren't infringed upon by every frustrated driver looking for a place to stick his car or minishuttle off the street.†  (source)
    infringed = went against a law, rule, or usual limit
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    I will want their broomsticks confiscated, of course; I shall keep them safely in my office, to make sure there is no infringement of my ban.†  (source)
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    "intrude," and "infringe."†  (source)
    infringe = go against a law, rule, or usual limit
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    Most people in our community are decent, hardworking citizens who pursue their own interests legally and without infringing on the rights of others.†  (source)
    infringing = going against a law, rule, or usual limit
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    Denying homosexuals the right to marriage infringes on their liberty and equality.†  (source)
    infringes = goes against a law, rule, or usual limit
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    Whether the apprehensions of the good ladies ...were due to infringements of morality or to the anticipation that the performers may bring on an attack of peritonitis if they persist in their contortions is not clear, but all the same they have taken the position that what is not considered very much out of the way on the banks of the Nile or in the market places of Syria is entirely improper on the Midway between Jackson and Washington Parks.†  (source)
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    Their theory, suitable for primitive and peaceful periods of history, has the inconvenience—in application to complex and stormy periods in the life of nations during which various powers arise simultaneously and struggle with one another—that a Legitimist historian will prove that the National Convention, the Directory, and Bonaparte were mere infringers of the true power, while a Republican and a Bonapartist will prove: the one that the Convention and the other that the Empire was the real power, and that all the others were violations of power.†  (source)
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    Dorothea, early troubling her elders with questions about the facts around her, had wrought herself into some independent clearness as to the historical, political reasons why eldest sons had superior rights, and why land should be entailed: those reasons, impressing her with a certain awe, might be weightier than she knew, but here was a question of ties which left them uninfringed.†  (source)
    uninfringed = not having violated a law, rule, or usual limit
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uninfringed means not and reverses the meaning of infringed. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The same legislators, who infringed on the Constitution when they made the laws, would not feel like repairing the breach when they act as judges.†  (source)
    infringed = went against a law, rule, or usual limit
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    By omitting the vast majority of the text, the server avoided copyright infringement and also sent the user an intriguing message: I have the information you're searching for, but if you want the rest of it, you'll have to buy it from me.†  (source)
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