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Lest you think this a modern monstrosity, know that it was used by George Washington in a letter in 1798, quoted in the OED
It is either a verbed adjective(!), the adjective dating from 1593 or a back-formation from infraction from the participle stem infract- of the Latin verb infringere. Parbly you'd rather infringe. The adjective, BTW, is part of a pair of false contranyms; infract from in-, not + fractus broken, meaning not broken and infract from the past partciple infractus, as the verb noted above, meaning broken, both from the mid to late 16th c.
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JohnHawaii 08/12/2003 11:38 PM 
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Jackie 08/13/2003 12:52 AM 
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Jackie 08/13/2003 1:21 PM 
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JohnHawaii 08/14/2003 1:18 AM 
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