transgression

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Alvina felt that her transgression was a very mild affair, and that her engagement was really infra dig And are you going to marry him?"

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  1. noun A violation of a law, command, or duty: "The same transgressions should be visited with equal severity on both man and woman” (Elizabeth Cady Stanton). See Synonyms at breach.
  2. noun The exceeding of due bounds or limits.
  3. noun A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.

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  • While Nevadans appear ready to accept the transgression, any 2012 hopes Ensign had were dashed. —  First Read
  • She had requested the meeting so that she could call the transgression to their attention, just in case. —  Signs of the Times
  • A 20-year-old female student reported her debit card number stolen and fraudulent charges made, but the transgression was caught by bank employees before purchases were authorized, —  State News Top Stories
  • But next to Todd's true transgression, the genocidal general is merely a rank amateur. —  Thestar.com - Home Page
  • I was first introduced to the concept of "guilty pleasure" (one not related to the tribulations of adolescence or ruler-happy nuns thwacking out at the slightest transgression, at least) through the auspices of Film Comment magazine back in the late '70s. —  The House Next Door
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  1. from French transgression =Provencal transgressio =Spanish transgresion, tragresion =Portuguese transgressão =Italian transgressione, trasgressione, from Latin transgressio (n-), a passing over, transposition, also a transgression of the law, from transgredi, past participle transgressus, pass over: see transgress.
 

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