Dictionary Entry

transgression

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/tɹænsˈɡɹɛʃən/Used In Literature ↓

A violation of a law, duty or commandment.

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Common Phrases

. transgressionagainst transgressiontransgression marinetransgression sexual

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Poetry examples for “transgression”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

In thy beautiful House
Give her for her Transgression
License to think of us --

"Nor think to say, here will I stop;
Here will I fix the limits of transgression,
Nor farther tempt the avenging rage of heaven.

‘2. I will show them wherein they have erred, and that transgression
stands in the way to life.

And for that sorrow, which I then did feel,
Needs must I under my transgression bow,
Unless my nerves were brass or hammer'd steel.