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单词 breach of promise
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breach of promise
breach of promise n. gen. as in preceding sense; spec. = breach of promise to marry.extracted from breachn.
breach of promise
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.
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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.
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