transgressed

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Has the boy Transgressed again in awless heat of speech And kindled wrath in thee against him—thee, Who stood'st between my wrath and him?

From Rosamund, queen of the Lombards, a tragedy by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

And, furthermore, Lord Tristram, who was once her paramour, Transgressed King Mark's decree by entering His realm.

From The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature by Various