Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing the bounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shameless boldness; barefaced assurance.
But says the Son, they are now transgressing your law, and need instruction.
Upon our first parents, for transgressing the law, he pronounced all the miseries of life, and uttered the closing sentence, "Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return.
Now to be guilty of transgressing all the precepts of Law, is the same as to commit all sins, because, as Ambrose says (De Parad.
It was commanded to be taken to Moses, because they blamed Him for transgressing the law of Moses by breaking the Sabbath.
He begins by overthrowing the superior authority that thwarts his inclination, and before transgressing the law he calls in question the competence of the lawgiver.
In the Southwest the subsidence continued until the transgressing sea covered most of Mexico and Texas and extended a gulf northward into Kansas.
The sandstones of the Upper Cambrian, as we have learned, tell of a transgressing sea which gradually came to occupy the Mississippi valley and the interior of North America.
I believe that the whole world lieth in darkness, in consequence of transgressing the laws of God.
What a meagre atonement does a demure countenance, and sanctimonious sighs and groans, and self-loathings make, for transgressing the law of God, and changing an ordinance.
Governments see that if ignorance of the law were allowed to excuse a man for any act whatever, it must excuse him for transgressing all statutes whatsoever, which he himself thinks inconsistent with his rights and liberties.
More important to the Jews of Rome was the point that the accusations of transgressing the harsh laws of Paul IV were not heard, as well as the charge of misdemeanor against those who had not given up their copies of the Talmud.
I am not," was my reflection, "transgressing her injunction so pathetically given, since I am but pursuing my own journey by the only open route.
Thou hast sinned; the law now calls for passive as well as active obedience; yea, great contentedness in all thou sufferest for thy transgressing against the law.
Grace' is love that, stooping and forgiving, communicates its whole self to unworthy and transgressing recipients.
After him follows Justice, a punisher of those who have been deficient in their duties by transgressing the divine law.
The fool who cherisheth not religion, transgressing the proofs offered by the Rishis, never obtaineth prosperity in any life, for such transgression of the scriptures.
O thou of fair hips, I act virtuously, not from the desire of reaping the fruits of virtue, but of not transgressing the ordinances of the Veda, and beholding also the conduct of the good and wise!
By transgressing the practices of Brahmanas and Kshatriyas, subject not thyself, O king, to death by means of the terrible noose of Varuna.
But in merely mentioning these subjects I am transgressing my proper limits.
And without transgressing the limits which the theory of Marx imposes on us, such a further fact is very easy to find.
After I got through he made his statements, justifying himself throughout in transgressing the order of the Council, and treating the authority of the Presidency with contempt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "transgressing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
