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transgresstrans‧gress /trænzˈɡres $ træns-/ verb [intransitive, transitive] formal transgressOrigin: 1400-1500 French transgresser, from Latin, past participle of transgredi ‘to step beyond’, from gredi ‘to step’ VERB TABLEtransgress |
Present | I, you, we, they | transgress | | he, she, it | transgresses | Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | transgressed | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have transgressed | | he, she, it | has transgressed | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had transgressed | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will transgress | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have transgressed |
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Present | I | am transgressing | | he, she, it | is transgressing | | you, we, they | are transgressing | Past | I, he, she, it | was transgressing | | you, we, they | were transgressing | Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been transgressing | | he, she, it | has been transgressing | Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been transgressing | Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be transgressing | Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been transgressing |
- The terms of the treaty were transgressed almost immediately.
- Almost immediately this treaty was transgressed by the construction of fortified trading posts on the Platte River and along the Oregon Trail.
- Attention still came to Margarett naturally, and to respond, she believed, transgressed nothing.
- The act is too attractive, and they are tempted to transgress.
- The groups carrying on the violence are transgressing the majority will of the peoples they purport to represent.
- The sanctity of marriage should not be transgressed, and adulterers stand the risk of being stoned ... and viceversa.
- Why weren't they ruled out of order before they transgressed?
- Xorandor's logic transgresses that of binary systems because he combines mutually exclusive operations.
to do something that is against the rules of social behaviour or against a moral principle: Orton’s plays transgress accepted social norms.—transgressor noun [countable]—transgression /-ˈɡreʃən/ noun [countable, uncountable] |