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Transgress   /trænzgrˈɛs/   Listen
Transgress

verb
(past & past part. transgressed; pres. part. transgressing)
1.
Act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises.  Synonyms: breach, break, go against, infract, offend, violate.  "Violate the basic laws or human civilization" , "Break a law" , "Break a promise"
2.
Spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline.
3.
Commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law.  Synonyms: sin, trespass.
4.
Pass beyond (limits or boundaries).  Synonyms: overstep, trespass.



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"Transgress" Quotes from Famous Books



... be Major and the other Minor; but rather than spoil the Air, they will allow that Breach to be made, and this Allowance gives great Latitude to young Composers, for they may always make that Plea, and say, if I am not allowed to transgress the Rules of composition I shall certainly spoil the Air, and cross the Strain that Fancy dictated. And indeed this is without dispute, a very just Plea, for I am sure I have often and sensibly felt the disagreeable and slavish Effect of such ...
— The Standard Oratorios - Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers • George P. Upton

... laid under the necessity,) I shall on no occasion transgress against the strictest rules of truth and decency, nor be wanting in that respect, which I have ever paid, and shall ever pay to Congress, as the representative body of my fellow citizens. At the same ...
— The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I • Various

... Denzil's words were offensive. It was none of Denzil's business whether he came or went in this house, or what his relations with Junia were. Democrat though he was, he did not let democracy transgress his personal associations. He knew that the Frenchman was less likely to say and do the ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... stipulation, ere linkt at the shrine (As some balance between Fanny's numbers and mine), Was that, when we were one, she must give up the Nine; Nay, devote to the Gods her whole stock of MS. With a vow never more against prose to transgress. This she did, like a heroine;—smack went to bits The whole produce sublime of her dear little wits— Sonnets, elegies, epigrams, odes canzonets— Some twisted up neatly, to form allumettes, Some turned into papillotes, worthy to rise And enwreathe Berenice's bright locks ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al

... regard to Stephen Lord's daughter was but the natural issue of circumstance; from that conception resulted an amorous mood, so much inflamed by Nancy's presence that a young man, whose thoughts did not often transgress decorum, had every reason to suppose himself her victim. When Nancy rejected his formal offer of devotion, the desire to wed her besieged him more vigorously; Samuel was piqued at the tone of lofty trifling in which the girl answered his proposal; for assuredly he esteemed himself ...
— In the Year of Jubilee • George Gissing


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