transgression

IPA: trænzgrˈɛʃʌn

A violation of a law, duty or commandment.
An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries.
(geology) A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.

Examples of "transgression" in Sentences

Such a transgression is probably good for at least a week in the doghouse.
_I answer that, _ The term transgression is derived from bodily movement and applied to moral actions.
If the transgression is a result of error rather than impulse or intent, the wrongness is not "in" us.
Every past or present Israeli transgression is evidence of its wickedness, whereas Arab ones, if they are acknowledged at all, are “understandable.”
Their main transgression involves the use of so-called robo-signers, bank employees who signed foreclosure affidavits without properly checking the required loan documentation.
Because transgression is vice, because we must control our passions, because vice is self-indulgence, because passion can only be controlled by reason, because reason is control, because control is virtue.
I don't think it's hard to see how a reader's reaction to the strange may add exactly this sort of boulomaic modality, particularly with Horror, where the strange becomes the uncanny, where the transgression is as much moral as nomological, where the events not only "could not have happened" but "should not have happened"