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Transgression

noun

The act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle. Synonym: evildoing.

The spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.

The action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit.

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"Transgression" Quotes from Famous Books

... against the chimney, and took no notice of the personal insult, like a well-trained policeman as it was, though it was ready enough to avenge any transgression against morality ...

— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester

... I come before the Lord and bow myself before the most High God? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings? . . . Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams? . . . Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression; the fruit of my body for the sin of ...

— Sermons for the Times • Charles Kingsley

... land, and one which is considered sufficiently serious to warrant providing penalties for its commission. It does not necessarily follow that this act is either good or bad; the punishment follows for the violation of the law and not necessarily for any moral transgression. No doubt most of the things forbidden by the penal code are such as are injurious to the organized society of the time and place, and are usually of such a character as for a long period of time, and in most countries, have been classed as criminal. But even then it does ...

— Crime: Its Cause and Treatment • Clarence Darrow

... for half an hour straight ahead, sending the next pupil into the adjoining room—an unprecedented transgression of routine. He showed her for the first time what a teacher he could be, when he wished. There was an astonishing difference between her first singing of the song and her sixth and last—for they went through ...

— The Price She Paid • David Graham Phillips

... at this moment was that most beautiful one in which the fatal morning separation is described between Adam and his bride—that separation so pregnant with wo, which eventually proved the occasion of the mortal transgression—the last scene between our first parents at which both were innocent and both were happy—although the superior intellect already felt, and, in the slight altercation preceding this separation, had already expressed a dim misgiving ...

— Narrative And Miscellaneous Papers • Thomas De Quincey

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