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Trespass   /trˈɛspˌæs/  /trˈɛspəs/   Listen
noun
Trespass  n.  
1.
Any injury or offence done to another. "I you forgive all wholly this trespass." "If ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses."
2.
Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin. "The fatal trespass done by Eve." "You... who were dead in trespasses and sins."
3.
(Law)
(a)
An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.
(b)
An action for injuries accompanied with force.
Trespass offering (Jewish Antiq.), an offering in expiation of a trespass.
Trespass on the case. (Law) See Action on the case, under Case.
Synonyms: Offense; breach; infringement; transgression; misdemeanor; misdeed.


verb
Trespass  v. i.  (past & past part. trespassed; pres. part. trespassing)  
1.
To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go. (Obs.) "Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce... trespassed out of this uncertain world."
2.
(Law) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
3.
To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.
4.
To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; often followed by against. "In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord."





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"Trespass" Quotes from Famous Books



... to have been soon called upon again to visit the poor girl; but the Lodge lay beyond the boundary of my parish, and I felt a reluctance to trespass upon the precincts of my brother minister, and a certain degree of hesitation in intruding upon one whose situation was so very peculiar, and who would, I had no doubt, feel no scruple in requesting my attendance if she ...
— The Purcell Papers - Volume II. (of III.) • Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
... proceed? She discountenances the practice; and, if forced upon her notice, she visits it with censure, and that sort of punishment which lies within her means. But she takes no pains to search out a trespass, which, by the mere act of seeking to evade public display in the streets of the university, already tends to limit itself; and which, besides, from its costliness, can never become a prominent nuisance. This I mention as illustrating the spirit ...
— Memorials and Other Papers • Thomas de Quincey
... labor, or other lawful means, is rightfully our own; and we are justly entitled to the free use and enjoyment of it. We have a right also to be free in our actions. We may go where we please, and do what ever we think necessary for our own safety and happiness; provided we do not trespass upon the rights of others; for it must be remembered that others have the ...
— The Government Class Book • Andrew W. Young
... man to mind his own business, and to say that the first person we found attempting to trespass on our property should be given ...
— An Unsocial Socialist • George Bernard Shaw
... heard the trial of an action of trespass, brought by a mulatto woman, for damages, for restraining her of her liberty. This is called suing for liberty; the first action that ever I knew of the sort, though I have heard there ...
— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams


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