What is "transgress"

Usage examples of "transgress".

What if I said I could change all that What if I said that I had a miniature shotgun that blasts gene fragments into the cells of living organisms, altering their genetic matrices so that a monozygotic replicant would no longer be a monozygotic replicant and she could then make love to a muscleman without transgressing the incest taboo, I say, opening my shirt and exposing the device which I had stuck in the waistband of my black jeans.

In the thin tide of thought that washed between us there was no hint of moral preachment, merely a reminder of the limit I was on the verge of transgressing.

He preserved a steady silence to the letters in which Valancourt, despairing of greater good, and having subdued the passion, that had transgressed against his policy, solicited only the indulgence of being allowed to bid Emily farewell.

The dungeons were near empty since he began his reign, though a few of the truly evil who had transgressed against the past Unblessed King were locked up behind iron doors to wither away their eternities.

God, despising him and his Sacraments, that thou dost transgress divine law, Holy Scripture and the canons of the Church, that thou thinkest evil and dost err from the faith, that thou art full of vain boasting, that thou art addicted to idolatry and worship of thyself and thy clothes, according to the customs of the heathen.

Campbell of Islay, of giving offence by transgressing the rules of Japanese politeness--of, I know not what!

Showed them her ritual service and taught them her mysteries, even Diodes, princely Triptolemus, and Polyxenus, the solemn Mysteries, which are unthinkable either to question or utter Or to transgress: for a holy respect checks the utterance of them.

Whatever may be the ways of Providence, human beings must always acknowledge it in its action, and those who call upon Providence independently of all external consideration must, at the bottom, be worthy, although guilty of transgressing its laws.

Then they drew from the cup in golden vessels, and, pouring a libation on the fire, they swore t hat they would judge according to the laws on the column, and would punish any one who had previously transgressed, and that for the future they would not, if they could help, transgress any of the inscriptions, and would not command or obey any ruler who commanded them to act otherwise than according to the laws of their father Poseidon.

Do you imagine that a man who gets an honest girl with child in a house of which he is an inmate does not transgress the laws of society?

He spareth none, neither knoweth he how to show mercy to those that transgress his law.

Gillian Hazeltine, true to form, will have transgressed several statutes, ferreted out the real killer and pulled an unexpected legal rabbit or two out of his hat.

Short of damage to things cherished and made, the Utopians will surely have this right, so we may expect no unclimbable walls and fences, nor the discovery of any laws we may transgress in coming down these mountain places.

But I blamed myself for having transgressed the excellent maxim, never to answer anyone in the night time.

Later, across Susquehanna, there come days when the only Inns are worse than no Inn, and presently days when there are no Inns at all, and at last the night they encamp knowing that for an unforeseeable stretch of Nights, they must belong to this great Swell of Forested Mountains, this place of ancient Revenge, and Beasts outside the Fire-light, the sun this particular evening as if in celestial Seal, spreading into a Glory, transgressing all Metes and Bounds, filling the Trees, lighting the Animals, their flanks averted, wash'd in its oncoming Flow, bringing to human faces a precision approaching purification, goading each soul, as if again and again, ever toward the Shambles of Eternity.