Definition of Transgression
Transgression
The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin.
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Transgression Quotations
There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.
Herman Melville
Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.
Hesiod
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
Henry James Sumner Maine
Transgression Translations
transgression in Afrikaans is oortreding, sonde
transgression in Dutch is zonde
transgression in Finnish is synti
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