transgress
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Professor of gender studies at California State University Stanislaus and editor of Transgress Press, which publishes books related to the transgender experience.
From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2018
Transgress in 140 characters to and monitor my feed for the offensive.
From Slate • May 10, 2011
He first sends Uriel down, "To drive the pair from Eden who have dared Transgress, so rash and blind, the primal law."
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
Ready are we to die, but we will never Transgress the law and customs of our fathers.
From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Transgress, trans-gres′, v.t. to pass beyond a limit: to break, as a law.—v.i. to offend by violating a law: to sin.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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