transgress

IPA: trænzgrˈɛs

verb

(transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
(transitive) To act in violation of some law.
(intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
(intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.

Examples of "transgress" in Sentences

He has transgressed the rule.
They can not surpass nor transgress the richas.
In the latter case it is a common transgression.
The Yajnya can not surpass nor transgress there.
No one noticed that he committed a transgression.
That was because they rebelled and used to transgress.
Theological sin is a transgression of the eternal law.
The boundaries of relational transgressions are permeable.
Perhaps that was the correct punishment for my transgression.
A statement of the problem is made, and the transgression discussed.
Rather, it had to do with taking responsibility for where he did transgress, which is having an inappropriate relationship with an informant.
Goebel: not simply mediated views of the world, but also fantasies and imaginative extrapolations that 'transgress' given reality can be constructed and communicated.
No physical image of a man stepping over a boundary is presented to our minds by the word transgress, nor in using the word comprehension do we picture to ourselves any manual act of grasping.
May my life be laid down for the transgressions of such as transgress against Thee, for through them the breath of Thy grace and the fragrance of Thy loving-kindness are made known and diffused amongst men.
The books were not only at the barricades, they were the barricades, behind which the students could both take shelter and push forward; could "transgress" across the police lines while the truncheons fell on the books, not the demonstrators.
Ruth Anne: You are one of my faves, as you know, but honestly, when it comes to sex and women, it truly does seem that your compassion capacity for women who, I guess the word is "transgress" for want of a better, in a particular way is oddly low.
Y: "And to you there came Joseph in times gone by, with Clear Signs, but ye ceased not to doubt of the (Mission) for which he had come: At length, when he died, ye said: 'No messenger will Allah send after him.' thus doth Allah leave to stray such as transgress and live in doubt," -
So that it may, I confess, give temporal impunity to such as transgress upon this account, but for all that, it can never by so doing warrant the transgression itself; it may indeed indemnify the person, but cannot take away the guilt, which, resulting from the very nature of the action, is inseparable from it.

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