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hope I never see it again
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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