Literary notes about Infringe (AI summary)
In literature, the term infringe is often employed to express a breach or trespass against established boundaries—whether those boundaries are legal, moral, or social. Authors use the word to indicate when individuals or institutions violate statutes or norms, as when a ruler inadvertently transgresses his own decrees [1] or when laws themselves are seen as impinging on personal liberty [2]. It also appears in more intimate or symbolic contexts, suggesting a disruption of ethical or aesthetic order, a tension illustrated by conflicts between individual conscience and communal rules [3]. Moreover, infringe can highlight the consequences of overstepping limits imposed by tradition, legal frameworks, or divine authority [4, 5, 6], thereby enriching narratives with a sense of solemn duty and the price of transgression.
- The king showed great desire to enforce several statutes, but the difficulty lay in the fact that he was the first to infringe them.
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French - Have we no laws in existence now which infringe upon the right of personal liberty? Do not our usury laws take some rights from the individual?
— from The ArenaVolume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various - The ordinary man must not infringe the law; but the extraordinary man may authorize his conscience to do away with certain obstacles in his path.
— from Russia: Its People and Its Literature by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de - That one nation has no right to infringe upon the freedom of another?
— from Civilization of the Indian Natives or, a Brief View of the Friendly Conduct of William Penn Towards Them in the Early Settlement of Pennsylvania by Halliday Jackson - A maximum, or highest price, beyond which nothing is to be sold, is now promulgated under very severe penalties for all who shall infringe it.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Part III., 1794Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with Generaland Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs - That if either party should infringe any of these terms in the slightest particular, the armistice should be at once void.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides
