transgression
pronunciation
How to pronounce transgression in British English:
UK [træns'ɡreʃn]
How to pronounce transgression in American English:
US [trænsˈɡrɛʃən, trænz-]
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- Noun:
- the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
- the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
- the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit
Word Origin
- transgression (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French transgression "transgression," particularly that relating to Adam and the Fall (12c.), from Late Latin transgressionem (nominative transgressio) "a transgression of the law," in classical Latin, "a going over, a going across," noun of action from transgressus, past participle of transgredi "step across, step over; climb over, pass, go beyond," from trans- "across" (see trans-) + gradi (past participle gressus) "to walk, go" (see grade (n.)). Geological sense is from 1882.
Example
- 1. The transgression cost mr yang his job as a law professor .
- 2. The price can make an action look more like a transaction than a transgression .
- 3. I suspect that you have in fact made a major transgression .
- 4. An angry man stirs up contention , and a furious man abounds in transgression .
- 5. 2 Then will I visit their transgression with the rod , and their iniquity with stripes .