TRANSGRESS


Meaning of TRANSGRESS in English

verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

The terms of the treaty were transgressed almost immediately.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Almost immediately this treaty was transgressed by the construction of fortified trading posts on the Platte River and along the Oregon Trail.

Attention still came to Margarett naturally, and to respond, she believed, transgressed nothing.

The act is too attractive, and they are tempted to transgress .

The groups carrying on the violence are transgressing the majority will of the peoples they purport to represent.

The sanctity of marriage should not be transgressed, and adulterers stand the risk of being stoned ... and viceversa.

Why weren't they ruled out of order before they transgressed?

Xorandor's logic transgresses that of binary systems because he combines mutually exclusive operations.

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