transgression

See also: Transgression

English

Etymology

From Middle English transgressioun, from Old French transgression, from Late Latin trānsgressiō, from Latin trānsgressus (perfect active participle of trānsgredior (“I step across”)) + -iō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹænsˈɡɹɛʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

transgression (countable and uncountable, plural transgressions)

1. A violation of a law, duty or commandment.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Joshua 24:19:

     And Ioshua said vnto the people, Ye cannot serue the Lord: for hee is an holy God: he is a ielous God, he will not forgiue your transgressions nor your sinnes.

2. An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries.
3. (geology) A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata.

Translations

violation of a law, command or duty

• Catalan: transgressió f
• Czech: přestupek (cs) m
• Dutch: overtreding (nl)
• Faroese: brot n, lógarbrot n
• Finnish: rikkomus (fi), rike (fi)
• French: infraction (fr) f
• Galician: transgresión f
• German: Transgression (de) f, Verstoß (de) m, Übertretung f, Überschreitung (de) f, Gesetzesverstoß (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐍃𐍃𐌰𐌳𐌴𐌸𐍃 f (missadēþs)
• Greek: παράβαση (el) f (parávasi)
• Hungarian: kihágás (hu)
• Icelandic: brot (is) n, afbrot (is) n, lögbrot (is) n
• Italian: trasgressione (it) f
• Latin: delinquentia f
• Malay: takahanga
• Middle English: transgressioun
• Norn: brut
• Persian: نافرمانی (fa) (nâfarmâni)
• Plautdietsch: Äwaträdunk f
• Portuguese: transgressão (pt) f
• Romanian: infracțiune (ro) f
• Russian: просту́пок (ru) m (prostúpok), преступле́ние (ru) n (prestuplénije), правонаруше́ние (ru) n (pravonarušénije)
• Sanskrit: आगस् (sa) n (āgas)
• Spanish: transgresión (es) f
• Swedish: överträdelse (sv) c
• Turkish: ihlal (tr)
• Ukrainian: просту́пок m (prostúpok)

act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries

• Finnish: omavaltaisuus (fi)
• Galician: transgresión f
• German: Verstoß (de) m, Übertretung f, Regelverstoß (de) m, Regelübertretung f
• Polish: transgresja (pl) f, wykroczenie (pl) n
• Romanian: abatere (ro) f
• Ukrainian: просту́пок m (prostúpok)

relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata

• Finnish: transgressio
• French: transgression (fr) f
• Icelandic: áflæði n
• Polish: transgresja (pl) f
• Romanian: transgresiune (ro) f

French

Noun

transgression f (plural transgressions)

1. transgression (violation)

Further reading

• “transgression”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Middle English

Noun

transgression

1. Alternative form of transgressioun