All 4 Uses of
transgress
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- The flat transgression of a school-boy, who, being overjoy'd with finding a bird's nest, shows it his companion, and he steals it.†
Scene 2.1transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
- Wilt thou make a trust a transgression?
Scene 2.1 *transgression = an act in violation of rules, promises, or social norms
- The transgression is in the stealer.†
Scene 2.1transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
- I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make the fire too.†
Scene 2.1transgressed = violated 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."