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Trespassing   /trˈɛspˌæsɪŋ/  /trˈɛspəsɪŋ/   Listen
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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"Trespassing" Quotes from Famous Books



... I reckon I'd better look after those chaps. If they're trespassing on Elk Lodge I can ...
— The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound - Or, The Proof on the Film • Laura Lee Hope
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... hands. "I fear I am trespassing," said Barnes. His glance went over his shoulder as he spoke. The man with the spade had been swallowed up by the earth! He could not have vanished more quickly in any other way. Off among the trees there were intermittent flashes ...
— Green Fancy • George Barr McCutcheon
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... a wife, and her name was Diffidence; so when he was gone to bed, he told his wife what he had done, to wit, that he had taken a couple of prisoners, and cast them into his dungeon for trespassing on his grounds. Then he asked her also what he had best to do further to them. So she asked him what they were, whence they came, and whither they were bound, and he told her. Then she counselled him, that when ...
— MacMillan's Reading Books - Book V • Anonymous
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... "I haven't. As a rule, I do go about equipped with ropes and hooks and things to—rescue trespassing hydroaviators, but—" she regarded him thoughtfully. "Do you like to ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple
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... in the Vahan[192] on a passage from Phaedrus which sheds all the light that can be shed on the question of metempsychosis; in the space of a few lines everything is said that may be publicly revealed, without trespassing ...
— Reincarnation - A Study in Human Evolution • Th. Pascal
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