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preterˈgression rare. [n. of action from prec.: see -ion1.] a. The action of passing by (without notice or performance); failure to follow a path, conform to a law, etc. b. The action of going beyond or overstepping bounds.
1615Jackson Creed iv. ii. viii. §5 Seeing the Lawgiver's will was that we should do the law, not only hear it, much less go besides it, there is no prætergression of it but is directly against the Lawgiver's will. 1802–12Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) V. 251 A motion for a writ of prohibition to be directed to the ecclesiastical court, on the ground of prætergression of jurisdiction. Ibid. 617 There would be, at least,..no pretergression of the bounds of official authority. |