All 6 Uses
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- My fears have found their way into my prayers, and I find myself in sin, making silent requests to the powers that surround us to punish John Rimbauer if any transgressions be known.†
Chpt 2transgressions = acts that violate rules, promises, or social norms
- For if transgressions have been made, then John Rimbauer has already switched his allegiance, whether aware of it or not.†
Chpt 2
- After all his transgressions, and there I lie in my bed hoping-dare I say it?†
Chpt 5
- Not even cousins would discuss such transgressions.†
Chpt 5
- I will not blame him for these transgressions.†
Chpt 6
- All these months of not so much as a kiss between us, I had assumed his transgressions with the women of the night had satisfied whatever urges a man like John Rimbauer has-substantial urges indeed.
Chpt 8 *
Definitions:
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(1)
(transgress) to violate a rule, promise, or social norm
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(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."