Both Uses of
transgress
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- Come, you transgressing slave: away!†
Scene 1.2 *transgressing = violating a rule, promise, or social norm
- Teach us, sweet madam, for our rude transgression Some fair excuse.†
Scene 5.2transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
Definitions:
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(1)
(transgress) to violate a rule, promise, or social norm
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much more rarely (and archaically), transgress can mean: "spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline" as in "The sea transgresses along the West coast of the island."