[a. Fr. effraction, as if ad. L. *effractiōn-em, f. as prec.] Breaking open (a house); burglary.
1840. New Monthly Mag., LVIII. 277. The dwelling-place where the effraction was perpetrated.
1868. Milman, St. Paul’s, iv. 80. A riot, with effraction and murder.
1881. J. Payne, Villon’s Poems, Introd. 54. Such efficient instruments of effraction that no bolts or locks could resist them.
