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transgression|trɑːnsˈgrɛʃən, træns-, -nz-|
[app. a. F. transgression (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. L. transgressiōn-em a going over; later, a violation, transgression, sin, n. of action from transgredī to transgress.]
1. a. The action of transgressing or passing beyond the bounds of legality or right; a violation of law, duty, or command; disobedience, trespass, sin.
1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 1130 Transgressyoun ys for to say A goyyng fro the ryht[e] way, Or shortly, in sentement Brekyng off a comaundement. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 213 Borne in as grete innocency and withowte synne as Adam was afore the transgression. 14..Cust. Malton in Surtees Misc. (1888) 60 Alle odyr transgrescyons þt towchys the lordes persons. 1494Fabyan Chron. (1811) 342 Culpable in certayne artycles, towchynge transgressyon agayne the kynge. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 27 Dedely synnis quhilke ar transgressionis of Gods commands. 1595Shakes. John i. i. 256 Heauen lay not my transgression to my charge. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvi. 148 Punishments ordained beforehand for their transgression. 1722De Foe Relig. Courtsh. i. ii. (1840) 67 The children shall not be punished for the father's transgression. 1824L. Murray Eng. Gram. I. 491 The transgression of this rule makes what are called harsh or forced metaphors.
b. The action of passing over or beyond. (Only as the etymological sense of the word.)
1623Cockeram, Transgression, a passing or going ouer. 1643J. Burroughes Exp. Hosea (1652) 238 Sin is called by the name of Transgression..that is going beyond their bounds, going over the hedge. 1857Maurice Ep. St. John iii. 47, I call it transgression; that is, the passing over a boundary which was marked out for me. 1907Illingworth Doctr. Trinity x. 190 Sin is always transgression, the over-stepping of due bounds, the refusal to be limited.
2. Geol. The spread of the sea over the land, as evidenced by the deposition of unconformable marine sediments.
1882Geikie in Nature 13 July 242/2 In a section ‘Upon Abrasion and Transgression’, the author insists upon the paramount influence of the sea as an agent in planing down the surface of the land. 1903Claypole in Amer. Geol. Aug. 91 The depression in southern Ohio, where the outcrop of the Corniferous limestone and the Corniferous-Hamilton is concealed by the transgression of the shale. 1908, etc. [see regression 7]. 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles iii. 67 Minor changes of sea level and coastal configuration have continued well beyond the main period of marine transgression.
Hence transˈgressional a., of or pertaining to transgression; of the nature of a transgression.
1690–1Ld. Rochester Let. in Burnet Own Times (1823) VI. 284 Forgive this transgressional rapture, and receive my thanks..for your kind letter. |