1. (v.i.)transgress to violate a law, command, moral code, etc.; offend; sin.
2. (v.t.)transgress to passover or go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.): to transgress the bounds of prudence.
3. transgress to go beyond the limits imposed by (a law, command, etc.); violate; infringe.
Etymology: (1520–30; < L trānsgressus, ptp. of trānsgredī to step across =trāns-trans - +-gredī, comb. form of gradī to step)
Definition of 'transgress'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)transgress, offend, infract, violate, go against, breach, break act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises "offend all laws of humanity"; "violate the basic laws or human civilization"; "break a law"; "break a promise"
2. (verb)transgress spreadover land, especially along a subsidingshoreline "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island"
3. (verb)sin, transgress, trespass commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
4. (verb)transgress, trespass, overstep pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
Definition of 'transgress'
Webster Dictionary
1. (verb)transgress to passover or beyond; to surpass
2. (verb)transgress hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral
3. (verb)transgress to offend against; to vex
4. (verb)transgress to offend against the law; to sin
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