TRANSGRESS
\tɹansɡɹˈɛs], \tɹansɡɹˈɛs], \t_ɹ_a_n_s_ɡ_ɹ_ˈɛ_s]\
Definitions of TRANSGRESS
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
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By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
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spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline; "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island"
By Princeton University
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To offend against; to vex.
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To offend against the law; to sin.
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Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
By Oddity Software
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To offend against; to vex.
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To offend against the law; to sin.
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Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
By Noah Webster.
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To break a law, rule, etc.; to sin.
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To break, sin against, or violate; as, to transgress a law.
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Transgressor.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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