Both Uses of
transgress
in
The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- For Juno, headstrong and imperious still, She claims some title to transgress our will.†
Book 8 *transgress = violate a rule, promise, or social norm
- For Juno, headstrong and imperious still, She claims some title to transgress his will: But thee, what desperate insolence has driven To lift thy lance against the king of heaven?†
Book 8
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."