What is "transgressions"

Usage examples of "transgressions".

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.

And as you sued for forgiveness through that blood, so also will I make My blood forgiveness of sins, and erase transgressions in it.

They could, they said, have no rest day nor night because of their transgressions against Shaddai and against Emmanuel, his Son.

It was, moreover, resolved by the famous town of Mansoul, that a public fast, and a day of humiliation, should be kept throughout the whole corporation, to the justifying of their Prince, the abasing of themselves before him for their transgressions against him, and against Shaddai, his Father.

Nor did thy goodness fetch me again unto thee, after that I for thy transgressions have hid my face, and withdrawn my presence from thee.

Mansoul, I am returned to thee in peace, and thy transgressions against me are as if they had not been.

For all my transgressions against womankind -- not least my apparent inability to treasure one of their number above all else in life, as did many so-called sexist pigs -- I was contrite, and did not expect absolution.

Public executions for religious transgressions were too important a form of education to allow off-worlders, no matter who they were, to put an end to them.

Ysandre muttered through stiff lips as I made my curtsy, struggling against the desire to kneel and beg her forgiveness for the enormity of my transgressions against the throne.