transgression
transgression
Definition
trans·gres·sion (--gres̸h′ən)
noun
the act or an instance of transgressing; breach of a law, duty, etc.; sin
transgression
Synonyms
transgression
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- forgive: You will be restored, your transgression forgiven, the disgrace undone, and your life quite mended up again.
- commit: The cause lies in certain opportunist transgressions committed in their practical work by the official leaders of the Communist Party of Poland.
- punish: Mr Teague believed that the Sussex League were introducing a code of varying penalties to punish transgressions by players.
- represent: The succession is interpreted as representing the latest Triassic transgression of the sea; this continued into the earliest Jurassic.
- perceive: Perceived transgressions of such codes have led to the imprisonment and even killing of some women.
Adjective modifier
- Holocene: Both of the latter types of deposits are rarely exposed at the sea bed, and probably pre-date the Holocene sea-level transgression.
- marine: The presence of salt lakes and springs were also noted as evidence cited as evidence of marine transgressions.
- sexual: The novel's main interest lies in her sexual transgressions rather than her work.
- minor: Confinement to Barracks; usually for a minor transgression of Army Regulations.
- actual: This is our original sin, the bitter root of all our actual transgressions, in thought, word, and deed.
Noun used with modifier
- sea-level: Both of the latter types of deposits are rarely exposed at the sea bed, and probably pre-date the Holocene sea-level transgression.
- thy: Of the third point, on this you can't go back, Wilt thou take punishment for thy transgression?
Possessives
- man: God's order had been adversely affected by man's transgression of Yahweh's laws.
Preposition: of
- boundary: He is known for his work on the transgression of boundaries, characteristically seen in his World Flag Ant Farm.
- law: For we consider this pity of yours which insures our safety through transgression of the law to be more grievous than death itself.
- rule: In the event of a serious transgression of the rules ( e.g.
- sea: The succession is interpreted as representing the latest Triassic transgression of the sea; this continued into the earliest Jurassic.
Preposition: for
- sake: I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
transgression Quotes
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
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