Transgress
verb
To break a rule, law, or code of conduct.
The company was fined for transgressing the health and safety regulations.
Often appears as...
- transgress the law
- transgress the rules
verb
To go beyond or overstep a limit or boundary, especially in a moral or ethical way.
He was careful not to transgress the bounds of decency.
Often appears as...
- transgress the boundaries
- transgress the line
verb
To sin or commit a offense (against God, for example).
The minister preached about the consequences of transgressing against God's commandments.
Often appears as...
- transgress god's law
- transgress commandments
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Religious
verb
To break a rule, law, or code of conduct.
The company was fined for transgressing the health and safety regulations.
Often appears as...
- transgress the law
- transgress the rules
verb
To go beyond or overstep a limit or boundary, especially in a moral or ethical way.
He was careful not to transgress the bounds of decency.
Often appears as...
- transgress the boundaries
- transgress the line
verb
To sin or commit a offense (against God, for example).
The minister preached about the consequences of transgressing against God's commandments.
Often appears as...
- transgress god's law
- transgress commandments
Usage tips
Religious
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Pro Tip 1/3Social Expectations
Use 'transgress' to indicate serious violations of social or official expectations.
The journalist was criticized for transgressing the unwritten rules of privacy.
Pro Tip 2/3Consequences Implied
'Transgress' often implies facing consequences or penalties for breaking rules.
Activists sometimes transgress the law to draw attention to their cause.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Contexts
The word 'transgress' is more common in formal contexts and written English.
The report detailed how the officials transgressed the procurement protocols.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Expectations
Use 'transgress' to indicate serious violations of social or official expectations.
The journalist was criticized for transgressing the unwritten rules of privacy.
Pro Tip 2/3Consequences Implied
'Transgress' often implies facing consequences or penalties for breaking rules.
Activists sometimes transgress the law to draw attention to their cause.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Contexts
The word 'transgress' is more common in formal contexts and written English.
The report detailed how the officials transgressed the procurement protocols.
Pro Tip 1/3Social Expectations
Use 'transgress' to indicate serious violations of social or official expectations.
The journalist was criticized for transgressing the unwritten rules of privacy.
Pro Tip 2/3Consequences Implied
'Transgress' often implies facing consequences or penalties for breaking rules.
Activists sometimes transgress the law to draw attention to their cause.
Pro Tip 3/3Formal Contexts
The word 'transgress' is more common in formal contexts and written English.
The report detailed how the officials transgressed the procurement protocols.
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Let the environment...
And today, we are in a situation where we estimate that we've transgressed three boundaries, the rate of biodiversity loss, which is the sixth extinction period in the history of humanity -- one of them being the extinctions of the dinosaurs -- nitrogen and climate change. But we still have some degrees of freedom on the others, but we are approaching fast
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What if all US health...
we actually felt like we were going to be arrested. It seemed kind of transgressive to talk about medicine and health care in the same breath, and yet it became liberating, because we found not only data but also good and honest people out there in the system who want to help folks get the care they need at a price they can afford.
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Elizabeth Pisani: Sex,...
unable quite to bring themselves to put in good sexual and reproductive health services for sex workers, unable quite to be giving out needles to junkies. But once they've gone from being transgressive people whose behaviors we don't want to condone to being AIDS victims,
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5 transformational...
and we are not accomplishing a safe operating space for humanity. So this really led us to a quite disappointing conclusion, that we will actually, even if we go conventional futures, fail on the SDGs and transgress planetary boundaries. We need some radical thinking.
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How will we survive when...
They see the world as governed by fundamental ecological processes with limits that we transgress to our peril. "Use less, conserve," they say. "Otherwise, everybody's going to lose." Wizards and prophets have been butting their heads together for decades,
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What happens when our...
Given that merely human hackers find bugs all the time, I'd say, probably not very confident. So we disconnect the ethernet cable to create an air gap, but again, like merely human hackers routinely transgress air gaps using social engineering.
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10 years to transform...
The main point is that once you transgress one, the risks start multiplying. The planetary boundaries are all deeply connected, but climate, alongside biodiversity, are core boundaries. They impact on all others.
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How film transforms the...
Honor killings take place in many parts of the world, where men punish women who transgress rules made by women who choose to marry on their own free will; or women who are looking for a divorce;
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My Daughter, Malala PIPE...
She is no more a free individual. She becomes the so-called honor of her father and of her brothers and of her family, and if she transgresses
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Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of...
You want to be stimulated. You want to be aroused. You want to be transgressed. It's like this, like an amusement park.
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Let the environment...
And today, we are in a situation where we estimate that we've transgressed three boundaries, the rate of biodiversity loss, which is the sixth extinction period in the history of humanity -- one of them being the extinctions of the dinosaurs -- nitrogen and climate change. But we still have some degrees of freedom on the others, but we are approaching fast
Video examples
What if all US health...
we actually felt like we were going to be arrested. It seemed kind of transgressive to talk about medicine and health care in the same breath, and yet it became liberating, because we found not only data but also good and honest people out there in the system who want to help folks get the care they need at a price they can afford.
Video examples
Elizabeth Pisani: Sex,...
unable quite to bring themselves to put in good sexual and reproductive health services for sex workers, unable quite to be giving out needles to junkies. But once they've gone from being transgressive people whose behaviors we don't want to condone to being AIDS victims,
Video examples
5 transformational...
and we are not accomplishing a safe operating space for humanity. So this really led us to a quite disappointing conclusion, that we will actually, even if we go conventional futures, fail on the SDGs and transgress planetary boundaries. We need some radical thinking.
Video examples
How will we survive when...
They see the world as governed by fundamental ecological processes with limits that we transgress to our peril. "Use less, conserve," they say. "Otherwise, everybody's going to lose." Wizards and prophets have been butting their heads together for decades,
Video examples
What happens when our...
Given that merely human hackers find bugs all the time, I'd say, probably not very confident. So we disconnect the ethernet cable to create an air gap, but again, like merely human hackers routinely transgress air gaps using social engineering.
Video examples
10 years to transform...
The main point is that once you transgress one, the risks start multiplying. The planetary boundaries are all deeply connected, but climate, alongside biodiversity, are core boundaries. They impact on all others.
Video examples
How film transforms the...
Honor killings take place in many parts of the world, where men punish women who transgress rules made by women who choose to marry on their own free will; or women who are looking for a divorce;
Video examples
My Daughter, Malala PIPE...
She is no more a free individual. She becomes the so-called honor of her father and of her brothers and of her family, and if she transgresses
Video examples
Bob Mankoff: Anatomy of...
You want to be stimulated. You want to be aroused. You want to be transgressed. It's like this, like an amusement park.
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Quote examples
Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.
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Ray Comfort
New Zealander Clergyman
Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.
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H. Rap Brown
American Activist
There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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Johann Johannsson
Icelander Composer
I am not very extreme in my life. But I'm very attracted to art that works with extremes and works with limits, that transgresses limits and transcends limits and crosses borders and has a certain boldness.
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John Cho
American Actor
I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.
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Irvine Welsh
Scottish Novelist
There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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Hesiod
Greek Poet
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.
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Jeremy Scott
American Designer
Fashion should have a transgressive nature; it can make you feel like someone else, give you heightened emotion. It should bring you joy and uplift you.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
American Scientist
Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.
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Ray Comfort
New Zealander Clergyman
Man is unique in creation because he has a sense of justice and truth. We spend billions of dollars each year to set up court systems to see that justice is done, and we build prisons for those who transgress the laws we enact.
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H. Rap Brown
American Activist
There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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Johann Johannsson
Icelander Composer
I am not very extreme in my life. But I'm very attracted to art that works with extremes and works with limits, that transgresses limits and transcends limits and crosses borders and has a certain boldness.
Quote examples
John Cho
American Actor
I don't know what the next frontier is, but good comedy should put its toe into taboo waters. You have to transgress a little bit, and that area shifts with culture and with the year.
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Irvine Welsh
Scottish Novelist
There's something about the modern era where it's very hard to transgress - we're all so online, easier to track by mobile phone - so you have people who do it on your behalf.
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Hesiod
Greek Poet
But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.
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Jeremy Scott
American Designer
Fashion should have a transgressive nature; it can make you feel like someone else, give you heightened emotion. It should bring you joy and uplift you.
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Janet Malcolm
American Writer
The transgressive nature of biography is rarely acknowledged, but it is the only explanation for biography's status as a popular genre.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish Writer
The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.
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