All 5 Uses
infringe
in
War and Peace
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- Beware of making any distinctions which may infringe equality.†
Chpt 5 *infringe = go against a law, rule, or usual limit
- Guerrilla war (always successful, as history shows) directly infringes that rule.†
Chpt 14infringes = goes against a law, rule, or usual limit
- It seemed to them that what they had lived through and experienced could not be expressed in words, and that any reference to the details of his life infringed the majesty and sacredness of the mystery that had been accomplished before their eyes.†
Chpt 15infringed = went against a law, rule, or usual limit
- To these questions three answers are possible: Either to assume (1) that the will of the people is always unconditionally transferred to the ruler or rulers they have chosen, and that therefore every emergence of a new power, every struggle against the power once appointed, should be absolutely regarded as an infringement of the real power;†
Chpt 15
- 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.†
Chpt 15
Definitions:
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(1)
(infringe) go against a law, rule, or usual limit
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)