Sample Sentences for
transgress
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    I also don't believe that whatever comes after life depends on my correctly reciting a list of my transgressions—that sounds too much like an Erudite afterlife to me, all accuracy and no feeling.  (source)
    transgressions = sins or rule violations
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    And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.  (source)
    transgression = rule violation
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    For this transgression, Williams now put her on the Out stack.  (source)
    transgression = violation
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    In the South, crimes like murder or assault might send you to prison, but interracial sex was a transgression in its own unique category of danger with correspondingly extreme punishments.  (source)
    transgression = rule violation
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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    But Nathaniel's new sense of responsibility makes him even less tolerant of transgressions, so he muddles through the days alternating between model citizen and unruly agitator.  (source)
    transgressions = rule violations
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in discussions from discuss, explosions from explode, and revisions from revise.
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    Once they obey you, you have no excuse to transgress against them.  (source)
    transgress = violate rules
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    The great professor of law has transgressed, inserted himself where he should not be.†  (source)
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    Such behavior was bad for Germany, and it was bad for the transgressor.†  (source)
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    I might well have added "Transgressors will be subject to confinement!"†  (source)
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    By stopping the story where the drama normally kicks in, with the children innocently transgressing against the witch's property, Coover forces us to see how our responses—anxiety, trepidation, excitement—are conditioned by our previous encounters with the original fairy tale.†  (source)
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    "But as to these days," I said; "you don't mean to tell me that no one ever transgresses this habit of good fellowship?"†  (source)
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    Perhaps for those very reasons, in those early months, being with him, falling in love with him, doing precisely what had been expected of her for her entire life, had felt forbidden, wildly transgressive, a breach of her own instinctive will.  (source)
    transgressive = violating a rule, promise, or social norm
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    16:10 A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She transgresseth" in older English, today we say "She transgresses."
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