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Transgression   /trænzgrˈɛʃən/   Listen
Transgression

noun
1.
The act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle.  Synonym: evildoing.
2.
The spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.
3.
The action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit.






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"Transgression" Quotes from Famous Books



... the dark and the inky rain. By God, there is no light! Great God again, it is closed! The gleam of a match that his great lean hand covers like a lamp-shade shows him the fateful notice—"Out of Bounds." Magnac, guilty of some transgression, has been banished into ...
— Under Fire - The Story of a Squad • Henri Barbusse

... neither mollified with ointment." And he thus gives expression to the obligation which was laid on him to make these discoveries known: "Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show My people their transgression, and the ...
— The Preacher and His Models - The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 • James Stalker

... not talk so dreadfully, Ernest. Forgive me, if I have done wrong in coming. Forgive me, if for one moment I recalled you to the tenderness you have so long abjured. But mine is the offence, and mine be the sorrow. Do not, I pray you, blame yourself so cruelly for my transgression, if it indeed be one. Oh, Ernest, how pale, how wretched you look! You are killing yourself and me,—your mother too. We cannot live in this state of alienation. The time of your vow is only half expired,—only twenty days are past, and they seem twenty years of woe. Dear Ernest, you are tempting ...
— Ernest Linwood - or, The Inner Life of the Author • Caroline Lee Hentz

... punishment than for my mother to refuse to kiss me at night: the very idea was terrible. More than the idea I never felt, for, happily, I never committed a fault that was deemed worthy of such penalty; but once I remember, for some transgression of my sister's, our mother thought proper to inflict it upon her: what SHE felt, I cannot tell; but my sympathetic tears and suffering for her sake ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte

... Listen, my good woman! You must not beat him any more. Be reassured; for your sake we will pardon your husband's transgression, and furthermore sentence him back to ...
— Comedies • Ludvig Holberg


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