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Definition of Transgressing
1. transgress [v] - See also: transgress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transgressing
Literary usage of Transgressing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, Council of Safety (Conn.)., James Hammond Trumbull, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1877)
"... and directed without warrant to apprehend and carry before the next assistant
or justice of the peace all persons transgressing said law as aforesaid, ..."
2. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Fox, Thomas Ellwood (1832)
"... plunging down and cut- ' ting off the body of the sins of the flesh, that is
got up in man and wo- ' man by their transgressing of God's commands. ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"Order I When members of the House of Commons and other debaters call out Order,
they mean that the person speaking is transgressing the rules of the House. ..."
4. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"offence : whereas, in other provinces, for a very small fault, in transgressing
the commands of their lord, they pay twenty or twenty-five." — Ibid. p. 330. ..."
5. A Sketch of the History of Attleborough: From Its Settlement to the Division by John Daggett, Amelia Daggett Shellfield (1894)
"... hath been allowed or shall be allowed without the unanimous consent of the
inhabitants at any time hereafter, but every person or persons transgressing ..."
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