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transgress Verb Formal 1. to break (a law or rule) 2. to overstep (a limit): he had never before been known to transgress the very slowest of walks [Latin trans beyond + gradi to step] transgression n
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| As Solomon saith, To respect persons is not good; for such a man will transgress for a piece of bread. Allworthy gave a patient hearing to their invectives, and then answered coldly: "That young men of Tom's complexion were too generally addicted to this vice; but he believed that youth was sincerely affected with what he had said to him on the occasion, and he hoped he would not transgress again. Ordinary men have to live in submission, have no right to transgress the law, because, don't you see, they are ordinary. |
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