| 单词 | breach of contract |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbreach of contract a. figurative. The breaking of a command, rule, engagement, duty, or of any legal or moral bond or obligation; violation, infraction: common in such phrases as breach of contract, breach of covenant, breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > breach of rule or custom breacha1382 transgression1426 violation1433 prevarication1561 forfeiture1575 contravention1579 infringement1628 temeration1641 contravening1645 infraction1673 the mind > language > speech > agreement > observance > non-observance or breach > [noun] borrow-breacha900 brucheOE breacha1382 violation1433 rupture1439 non-observance1453 misobservance1496 violating1523 swerving1545 infringinga1575 inobservation1579 recess1601 inobservancea1626 infringement1628 misobservancy1637 egression1651 nonconformity1653 unobservance1654 brack1658 infraction1673 violence1743 non-conformance1786 inobservancy1824 c1025 Eccl. Laws of Cnut 24 Wið æȝhwylcne æwbryce.] a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. iii. 13 To the Lord thi God thou hast do lawe breche. c1440 York Myst. v. 143 Lorde, Eue garte me do wronge and to þat bryg me brought. 1533–4 Act 25 Hen. VIII xvii Attempted the breche or violacion of the same statutes. ?1560 T. Norton Orations of Arsanes sig. A.iii Those whoes Antichristian Popish doctrine pronounceth open allowrance of breach of fayth to Christians whome they call heretikes. 1573 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 13 Better then the breach of ani custum. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 169 Receiue such welcome..As honor (without breach of honor) may, Make tender of. View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 143 Nuptial breaches . View more context for this quotation 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 1 Who..liue in the breach of Gods commaundement. 1619 J. Taylor Kicksey Winsey sig. B7 They being Romists, I a Protestant: Their Apostaticall Iniunctions saith, To keepe their faith with me, is breach of faith. a1640 P. Massinger Bashful Lover iv. ii. 68 in 3 New Playes (1655) A vertue, and not to be blended With vitious breach of faith. 1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (xxv. 7 Paraphr.) 141 The breaches innumerable, wherewith I have..offended against thee. 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 262. ⁋7 Nor shall I look upon it as any Breach of Charity. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 202 With Breach of Faith, and with Cruelty and Barbarity. 1764 T. Reid Inq. Human Mind ii. §6. 109 They can..break them and be punished for the breach. 1803 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1837) II. 174 In breach of your promises to me. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) iv. 53 Convicted of a breach of contract. 1834 T. Arnold in A. P. Stanley Life & Corr. T. Arnold (1844) I. vii. 379 What it would be a breach of duty in me to omit. 1879 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. xvi. 370 The breach of the truce by the Scots. < as lemmas |
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