Search for crossword answers and clues
Sin or crime
Answer for the clue "Sin or crime ", 13 letters:
transgression
Word definitions for transgression in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A violation of a law, duty or commandment 2 An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries 3 A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Transgression is a 1931 Pre-Code American drama film directed by Herbert Brenon, using a screenplay written by Elizabeth Meehan , adapted from Kate Jordan's 1921 novel, The Next Corner . The film stars Kay Francis (on loan from Paramount), Paul Cavanagh ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transgression \Trans*gres"sion\, n. [L. transgressio a going across, going over, transgression of the law, from transgredi, transgressus, to step across, go over; trans over, across + gradi to step, walk: cf. F. transgression. See Grade .] The act of transgressing, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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," ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle; "the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father" [syn: evildoing ] the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial ...
Usage examples of transgression.
These and other transgressions of those limits the States appropriately may punish.
He vowed he would immediately return home, and would never afterwards commit such a transgression: whether he kept his word or no, perhaps may appear hereafter.
I went on sinning every hour, and all the while most strenuously warring against sin, and repenting of every one transgression as soon after the commission of it as I got leisure to think.
As we shall see, also, unchastity of the mind is a violation of natural law as well as of moral law, and is visited with physical punishment commensurate to the transgression.
All transgressions and corruptions of language are supposed to originate in that unclassic section, while the truth is that the laws of polite English are as much violated on Fifth Avenue.
Mansoul, both in her apostacy and in her hellish rebellion, in a false, groundless, and dangerous peace, and damnable security, to the dishonour of the King, the transgression of his law, and the great damage of the town of Mansoul.
He was placed on the ground, and he crawled toward Mother Bruin as though he felt that he had been playing the errant against orders and must be punished for his transgressions.
Even before the daughters have spoken, or refused to speak, the trajectory of their love, there is this transgression: the commodified landscape is sliced up and parcelled out to the highest rhetorical bidder.
As nearly all of the prominent Fenian leaders had been placed under arrest for transgression of United States laws, and quite a number of their deluded followers who were captured in Canada were confined in Canadian prisons awaiting trial, the seriousness of their offences began to dawn upon the minds of those implicated in the movement.
The slightest transgression of independence, especially in young ladies, is enough to entertain the gossipmongers for weeks.
My own was a more complex transgression, for I had taken joy in the doom of others, I perhaps had even engineered the doom of others, but even that was a subtle Jamesian sort of thing, in the last analysis fairly insubstantial.
They both had plenty to feel guilty about, but Kusum had become obsessed with atoning for past transgressions and cleansing his karma.
Potentate, victor over Diabolus, and conqueror of the town of Mansoul, We, the miserable inhabitants of that most woful corporation, do humbly beg that we may find favour in thy sight, and remember not against us former transgressions, nor yet the sins of the chief of our town: but spare us according to the greatness of thy mercy, and let us not die, but live in thy sight.
O queen, be gracious and deliver me not to the Colchians to be borne to my father, if thou thyself too art one of the race of mortals, whose heart rushes swiftly to ruin from light transgressions.
And the poison of the old serpent, which infected Adam when he fell into his Transgression, by hearkening to the Tempter, has corrupted all mankind, and is a seed unto such diseases as this Infant is now laboring under.