单词 | pretergression |
释义 | † pretergressionn. Obsolete. rare. The action of ignoring or failing to follow a law, authority, etc.; the action of going beyond or overstepping bounds. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > [noun] > going beyond bounds overgoinga1382 surmounting14.. supergressiona1550 exceeding1593 debordment1603 pretergression1615 transgression1623 transcension?1624 debording1635 excess1818 overstep1822 overstepping1823 overpassing1865 transcendency1902 transcendence1907 1615 T. Jackson Iustifying Faith 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. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. V. ix. iv. iii. 251 A motion for a writ of prohibition to be directed to the ecclesiastical court, on the ground of prætergression of jurisdiction. 1827 J. S. Mill Rationale Judicial Evid. V. x. i. 617 There would be, at least,..no pretergression of the bounds of official authority. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1615 |
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