Transgress is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TRANSGRESS in dictionary:

VERB:
• to violate a command or law
• go beyond the limits of (what is morally, socially, or legally acceptable)
• (of the sea) spread over (an area of land)
• To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
• Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
• To offend against; to vex.
• To offend against the law; to sin.
• act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
• spread over land, especially along a subsiding shoreline
• commit a sin; violate a law of God or a moral law
• pass beyond (limits or boundaries)
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to violate a command or law; sin

Words related to TRANSGRESS

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Words that contain TRANSGRESS

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How to use TRANSGRESS in a sentence

• The women who transgress social conventionalities are often treated as if they had violated the rules of morals.
• He may, perhaps, avoid the commonplace by so doing, but he will certainly transgress the rules of propriety.
• Had he lived long enough to transgress the Law and not repented? was to her an ever-present question of terrible import.
• Who can say to-day that he may not transgress the bounds of temperance before this day week? Your condition in life is surrounded by inducements to drink.
• That is because they were rebellious and used to transgress.
• That was because they rebelled and used to transgress.
• If ye transgress the commandment of God, not one jot or one tittle of all your works shall be acceptable in His sight.
• Whatsoever in the contingent world can either be expressed or apprehended, can never transgress the limits which, by its inherent nature, have been imposed upon it.
• Lay not aside the fear of God, O kings of the earth, and beware that ye transgress not the bounds which the Almighty hath fixed.
• Have mercy upon yourselves, and repudiate not the claim of Him Whose truth ye have already recognized, and be not of them that transgress.
• Whoever pondereth this truth in his heart will readily admit that there are certain limits which no human being can possibly transgress.
• To transgress the limits of one’s own rank and station is, in no wise, permissible.
• To pursue the subject further, would be to transgress the chronological limits of my subject.
• Should she transgress during that time the belief is that she or her parents or her lover will die.
• Woe to whoever dares to transgress this custom! Grave quarrels would arise, and even worse.
• It could not be crushed, for the simple reason that it did not transgress the law.
• If any attempt is made to watch the child, he should be so carefully surrounded by vigilance that he cannot possibly transgress without detection.
• Before he was fully aware of his condition, he found himself being literally devoured by the vilest of all diseases, which only those who transgress in this manner suffer.
• The animal is the captive of nature and cannot transgress the rules and laws thereof.
• Shouldst thou transgress this command, accursed wouldst thou be, and to this I bear witness.
• Doom like this Should fall on all who dare transgress the laws, The doom of death.
• He argues, that, if we transgress our constitutional limits, each State, as a State, has a right to check us.
• The sun and moon and stars were fixed in their places, and laws given to them which they should never transgress, plants and animals were created, and finally man.
• You will perhaps ask what will be the consequence if we transgress either the single rule of the school or any of the great principles of duty.
• The mother thought it very strange her little boy should so often transgress, when he knew what to expect from such a course of conduct.
• It is, perhaps, right that they should transgress them, in order to ascertain where they lie.
• Society is not charitably inclined towards those who even involuntarily transgress its rules.
• And he who shall transgress after this, by killing the murderer, shall suffer a grievous punishment.
• These are the prescribed bounds of God, therefore draw not near them to transgress them.
• We also said unto them, Transgress not on the Sabbath day.
• And let not the malice of some, in that they hindered you from entering the sacred temple, provoke you to transgress, by taking revenge on them in the sacred months.
• To the king it seemeth strange indeed that he who was the first mover in the formation of a new law, should be the first one to transgress it.
• Often the only recreation possible for young men and young women together is dancing, in which it is always easy to transgress the proprieties.
• Forgiveness does not at once and wholly annihilate the tendency to transgress.
• And he was obedient unto the voice of the Lord, nor did he transgress His laws in anything.

Similar words containing GRES without suffix s and without prefix trans

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