All 7 Uses
transgress
in
Dante's Inferno -- translated by Longfellow
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- There standeth Minos horribly, and snarls;
Examines the transgressions at the entrance;
Judges, and sends according as he girds him.†Canto 1.1-11 *transgressions = acts that violate rules, promises, or social norms - I say, that when the spirit evil-born
Cometh before him, wholly it confesses;
And this discriminator of transgressions
Seeth what place in Hell is meet for it;
Girds himself with his tail as many times
As grades he wishes it should be thrust down.†Canto 1.1-11 - And why doth our transgression waste us so?†
Canto 1.1-11transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm
- Out of the mouth of each one there protruded
The feet of a transgressor, and the legs
Up to the calf, the rest within remained.†Canto 1.12-22transgressor = someone who violates a rule, promise, or social norm - In this way I beheld the seventh ballast
Shift and reshift, and here be my excuse
The novelty, if aught my pen transgress.†Canto 1.23-34transgress = violate a rule, promise, or social norm - If thou but lately into this blind world
Hast fallen down from that sweet Latian land,
Wherefrom I bring the whole of my transgression,
Say, if the Romagnuols have peace or war,
For I was from the mountains there between
Urbino and the yoke whence Tiber bursts.†Canto 1.23-34transgression = an act that violates a rule, promise, or social norm - "O thou, who showest by such bestial sign
Thy hatred against him whom thou art eating,
Tell me the wherefore," said I, "with this compact,
That if thou rightfully of him complain,
In knowing who ye are, and his transgression,
I in the world above repay thee for it,
If that wherewith I speak be not dried up."†Canto 1.23-34
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."