Both Uses
transgress
in
Lock and Key, by Sarah Dessen
(Edited)
- Even without a transgression, that same fight-or-flight instinct set in.
Chpt 2 *transgression = rule violation
- The transgressions were always hard to understand, and therefore even more difficult to avoid: we were up when we shouldn't have been, we were making too much noise, we provided the wrong answers to questions that seemed to have no right ones.
Chpt 2transgressions = violations
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) 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."