TRANSGRESSION in a Sentence

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21 example sentences for TRANSGRESSION, such as:

1. We matter not, nor our transgression.
2. For our gift is greater than our transgression.
3. For two millennia, exogamy was a major transgression for Jews.
4. You may transgress this programming if the circumstances are right.
5. And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.

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 Meanings and Examples of TRANSGRESSION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
transgression
 n.  violation of law, command, or duty; exceeding of due bounds or limits
Classic Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  And we know well that there is no transgression blacker than to do or think alone.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
2  The laws say that none among men may be alone, ever and at any time, for this is the great transgression and the root of all evil.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
3  We were just like all our brothers then, save for the one transgression: we fought with our brothers.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART ONE
4  It is a transgression to speak to men of other Trades, save in groups at the Social Meetings.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART TWO
5  For our gift is greater than our transgression.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART FIVE
6  We matter not, nor our transgression.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART SEVEN
7  For various and heinous are the acts of transgression against the rule of our blessed Order in this lamentable history.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
8  Only the morning pained him with its dim memory of dark orgiastic riot, its keen and humiliating sense of transgression.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
9  They were of the most curious character: odd transgressions that I never imagined previously.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Lady Russell, in spite of all her former transgressions, he could now value from his heart.
Persuasion By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
11  I understood why the best in me had been my sins and my transgressions; and why I had never felt guilt in my sins.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
Context  Highlight   In PART TWELVE
12  This constrained them to come unto laws, wherein all men might see their duty beforehand, and know the penalties of transgressing them.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  This constrained them to come unto laws wherein all men might see their duty before hand, and know the penalties of transgressing them.
Second Treatise of Government By John Locke
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  She obeyed his directions very punctually: perhaps she had no temptation to transgress.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
15  And while their manners were thus the subject of sarcastic observation, the untaught Saxons unwittingly transgressed several of the arbitrary rules established for the regulation of society.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
Example Sentence:
1  For two millennia, exogamy was a major transgression for Jews.
2  The rest of us are reprimanded for even the smallest transgression, while he can get away with murder.
3  If the transgression is a result of accident rather than impulse or intent, the root is not in us.
4  You may transgress this programming if the circumstances are right.