Transgressing

Word TRANSGRESSING
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Definitions and meanings of "Transgressing"

What do we mean by transgressing?

To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.

To act in violation of some law.

(construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.

(of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.

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The word "transgressing" in example sentences

"hyperbolic" comedy, in transgressing those limits, holds up to the prosaic discourse of gastronomy a phantasmagoric, poeticizing, mirror in which the voice of the other talks back. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Wherefore it goes on, “Making the word of God of none effect through your traditions, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye;” transgressing, that is, the commands of God, that ye may observe the traditions of men. ❋ 1225?-1274 (1842)

By reinscribing the idea of transgressing or transversing gender within a traditional gender binary-man in a woman's body, woman in a man's body-it contradicts goals shared by many transgendered and transsexual people: to live their lives as they desire, free of the gender binary. ❋ Smkaplan (2010)

Now is the possibility that the young victim may have been dating one of these guys and already "transgressing" since she entered into an interracial relationship, so let's not get carried away with our outrage. ❋ Anxious Black Woman (2007)

That if he hadn't been exposed, he'd still be "transgressing" with cocktail waitresses? ❋ Unknown (2009)

'transgressing' with a number of beautiful women. it would be a tragedy if the National Inquirer and the rest of the red top hypocrites were to become the biggest barrier to Tiger surpassing JN. wrote: ❋ Unknown (2009)

After introducing a decade of what might be the first choreography in modern history to display male and female dancers performing the same unisex movements--Rainer turned to film and narrative structures as a way of questioning and transgressing the kind of collectively-reinforced but unconscious identity formation that cinema perpetuates through the artifice of seduction. ❋ G. Roger Denson (2011)

Does the fact that I am not “transgressing gender” mean that I am “reifying the gender binary”? and how exactly is this not just repeating the same trope that trans-exclusive radfems throw at trans women? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The guy cheated and it is up to Jenny to forgive or divorce him for transgressing but injecting feminist comment of strong woman is what has messed up society. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For although Britain is outside the Eurozone and cannot be made to pay fines, it is quite possible that Britain could be punished by the EU for transgressing AGS rules, with for instance the withdrawal of EU structural funds despite the fact that we have partly paid for them. ❋ Mark Seddon (2011)

And none of them strangers to trespassing or transgressing. ❋ Wyatt Closs (2011)

She educates Shahryar as she casts her spell, culminating in her story of a caliph who, rather than severely punishing a transgressing subject, treats him with mercy. ❋ Peter Marks (2011)

And though, when I came to think of it, Chuckie Gregory of A-1 Contractors could use another drumming, somehow I felt that giving Benjamin his name would be transgressing too many lines of karma. ❋ P. G. Sturges (2011)

Surely they wanted traditional hearth and home, yet as transitional figures, they crossed a cultural moral line, transgressing with sex, drugs and jazz. ❋ Regina Weinreich (2011)

This breach of the laws of nature is also a breach of the laws of God (or Zeus rather), the Aloadae transgressing the divine order itself in their raging assault on the Heavens. ❋ Hal Duncan (2010)

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