Transgress
[trænz'gres;trɑːnz-;-ns-] or [trænz'ɡrɛs]
Definition
(verb.) pass beyond (limits or boundaries).
(verb.) act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises; 'offend all laws of humanity'; 'violate the basic laws or human civilization'; 'break a law'; 'break a promise'.
(verb.) spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline; 'The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island'.
Checked by Lilith--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
(v. t.) Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
(v. t.) To offend against; to vex.
(v. i.) To offend against the law; to sin.
Inputed by Conrad
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Exceed, transcend, pass, overstop, overpass, go beyond, pass over.[2]. Disobey, infringe, break, contravene, set at nought.
Checker: Roy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Break, violate, pass, disobey, contravene, sin, offend, infringe, trespass
ANT:Observe, keep, obey, fulfil, respect
Checked by Ida
Definition
v.t. to pass beyond a limit: to break as a law.—v.i. to offend by violating a law: to sin.—adj. Transgres′sible.—n. Transgres′sion the act of transgressing: violation of a law or command: offence: fault: crime: sin.—adjs. Transgres′sional; Transgres′sive.—adv. Transgres′sively.—n. Transgres′sor one who transgresses: one who violates a law or command: a sinner.
Typist: Portia
Examples
- The evils from which society suffers are set down to the efforts of misguided individuals to transgress these boundaries. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Is it better to drive a fellow-creature to despair than to transgress a mere human law, no man being injured by the breach? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- As the rules of order and pressure of laws were lost, some began with hesitation and wonder to transgress the accustomed uses of society. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Their creation myth proclaims: Merodach next arranged the stars in order, along with the sun and moon, and gave them laws which they were never to transgress. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It is more than time for retirement, said Madame; the rule of the house has already been transgressed too long. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- She doubted whether she had not transgressed the duty of woman by woman, in betraying her suspicions of Jane Fairfax's feelings to Frank Churchill. Jane Austen. Emma.
- We all promised faithfully, Richard with a merry glance at me touching his pocket as if to remind me that there was no danger of OUR transgressing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Each doing his own part, and never transgressing, the order and unity of the whole would be maintained. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
Typed by Greta