All 3 Uses of
infringe
in
Middlemarch
- 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.†
Chpt 4uninfringed = not having violated a law, rule, or usual limitstandard 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.
- This was offensive both to the physicians whose exclusive distinction seemed infringed on, and to the surgeon-apothecaries with whom he ranged himself; and only a little while before, they might have counted on having the law on their side against a man who without calling himself a London-made M.D. dared to ask for pay except as a charge on drugs.†
Chpt 5 *infringed = went against a law, rule, or usual limit
- "Does medical jurisprudence provide nothing against these infringements?" said Mr. Hackbutt, with a disinterested desire to offer his lights.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
go against a law, rule, or usual limit