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Transgress meaning

To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary. | To act in violation of some law. | To commit an offense; to sin.

Example sentences (14)

Early reactions in India suggest these remarks didn’t transgress any of India’s own red lines, with Modi and the Indian government largely celebrating Trump’s speech.

Is something that clearly seeks to transgress all boundaries in order to shock, if it retains a thin veneer of societal critique, worthy?

Thus they continue to transgress without any sense of moral culpability.

Even the CJI cannot transgress that,” he says.

If you transgress the law, remember that there are people charged with the responsibility to make you, I beg your pardon, force you to obey it.

That was the line beyond which he didn’t want to cross, out of respect for his wife, although on a couple of occasions he did transgress and he was mortified with shame and guilt.

As Gerald puts it, "an attention to order now requires that, in this second part, we should employ our pen in pointing out those particulars in which it seems to transgress the line of virtue and commendation".

Even the granting of appointed positions to a well-documented contributor may not transgress the law, particularly if the appointee appears to be suitably qualified for the post.

He noted that no general valid rule on food can be derived from the Bible and that to transgress such a rule is not a sin.

However, he understood how far he could transgress without serious consequences, and this approach continued throughout his career.

Hymn. to Demeter 470: "Awful mysteries which no one may in any way transgress or pry into or utter, for deep awe of the gods checks the voice.

Now if I carry out this oath, and break it not, may I gain for ever reputation among all men for my life and for my art; but if I transgress it and forswear myself, may the opposite befall me.

Reward and punishment The mainstream Jewish view is that God will reward those who observe His commandments and punish those who intentionally transgress them.

The responsum maintained a prohibition on male-male anal sex, which it described as the sole Biblically prohibited homosexual act. This act remains a yehareg ve'al ya'avor (" die rather than transgress " offense) under the decision.