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Trespass   /trˈɛspˌæs/  /trˈɛspəs/   Listen
Trespass

noun
1.
A wrongful interference with the possession of property (personal property as well as realty), or the action instituted to recover damages.
2.
Entry to another's property without right or permission.  Synonyms: encroachment, intrusion, usurpation, violation.
verb
(past & past part. trespassed; pres. part. trespassing)
1.
Enter unlawfully on someone's property.  Synonym: intrude.
2.
Make excessive use of.  Synonym: take advantage.  "She is trespassing upon my privacy"
3.
Break the law.
4.
Commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law.  Synonyms: sin, transgress.
5.
Pass beyond (limits or boundaries).  Synonyms: overstep, transgress.



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"Trespass" Quotes from Famous Books



... more suggestive of queries—as everybody knows from experience—than the products of culinary art. I will not, however, further trespass on space which may be devoted to a more dignified topic, ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 4, Saturday, November 24, 1849 • Various
... talks of trespass? I shall tell you quite openly when I am tired of you, but you know when we had the studio together, we used not to bore each other. However, it is ill talking of going away on the moment of your arrival. Just a stroll to the river, and then it will ...
— Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes - Mystic-Humorous Stories • Various
... to set forth that the House of Lords in Ireland had lately, "against law, assumed to themselves a power and jurisdiction to examine, correct, and amend the judgments and decrees of the courts of justice in the kingdom of Ireland;" and this alleged trespass of the Irish House of Lords was the whole cause of the new measure. The Act declared that the Irish House of Lords had no jurisdiction "to judge of, affirm, or reverse any judgment, sentence, or decree given or made in any court within the said ...
— A History of the Four Georges, Volume I (of 4) • Justin McCarthy
... need not trespass further upon your attention, except to lay before you the subject we are invited to discuss: the choice of "a meridian to be employed as a common zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning throughout the world;" and I shall beg you to complete ...
— International Conference Held at Washington for the Purpose of Fixing a Prime Meridian and a Universal Day. October, 1884. • Various
... to be trusted with a woman In her first labor. Well, well! she shall come. —Observe how earnest the old gossip is, (Coming forward) Because this Lesbia is her pot-companion. —Oh grant my mistress, Heav'n, a safe delivery, And let the midwife trespass any where Rather than here!—But what is it I see? Pamphilus all disorder'd: How I fear The cause! I'll wait a while, that I may know If this commotion ...
— The Comedies of Terence • Publius Terentius Afer


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