Transgression

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: trans=gres=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Transgression, n. [L. transgressio a going across, going over, transgression of the law, from transgredi, transgressus, to step across, go over; trans over, across + gradi to step, walk: cf. F. transgression. See Grade.].

 The act of transgressing, or of passing over or beyond any law, civil or moral; the violation of a law or known principle of rectitude; breach of command; fault; offense; crime; sin.  [1913 Webster]
"Forgive thy people . . . all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee."  [1913 Webster]
"What rests, but that the mortal sentence pass
On his transgression, death denounced that day ?"  [1913 Webster]
"The transgression is in the stealer."  [1913 Webster]

Syn. -- Fault; offense; crime; infringement; misdemeanor; misdeed; affront; sin.

THESAURUS

Transgression

atrocity, bad faith, breach, breach of contract, breach of faith, breach of law, breach of privilege, breach of promise, breach of trust, breaking, civil disobedience, contravention, crime, crime against humanity, deadly sin, delinquency, dereliction, disobedience, encroachment, enormity, erring, error, evil, failure, fall from grace, fault, felony, frowardness, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, impropriety, incursion, indiscipline, indiscretion, indocility, inexpiable sin, infraction, infringement, iniquity, injury, injustice, inroad, insubordination, intractability, intrusion, lapse, lawbreaking, lawlessness, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misbehavior, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, mortal sin, naughtiness, noncompliance, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonfeasance, nonobedience, offense, omission, outrage, overstepping, passive resistance, peccadillo, peccancy, recusancy, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, slip, tort, trespass, trespassing, trip, uncooperativeness, unduteousness, undutifulness, unsubmissiveness, unutterable sin, usurpation, venial sin, violation, violation of law, waywardness, willful disobedience, wrong, wrongdoing

ROGET THESAURUS

Transgression

Nonobservance

N nonobservance, evasion, inobservance, failure, omission, neglect, laches, laxity, informality, infringement, infraction, violation, transgression, piracy, retraction, retractation, repudiation, nullification, protest, forfeiture, lawlessness, disobedience, bad faith, violating, lawless, transgressive, elusive, evasive, unfulfilled &c (fulfill).

Dereliction of Duty

N dereliction of duty, fault, sin, non-observance, non-performance, neglect, relaxation, infraction, violation, transgression, failure, evasion, dead letter.

Guilt

N guilt, guiltiness, culpability, criminality, criminousness, deviation from rectitude, sinfulness, misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed, malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression, dereliction, delinquency, indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo, flaw, blot, omission, failing, failure, break, bad break!, capital crime, delictum, offense, trespass, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, malefaction, malfeasance, malversation, crime, felony, enormity, atrocity, outrage, deadly sin, mortal sin, deed without a name, corpus delicti, guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable, weighed in the balance and found wanting, exceptionable, in flagrante delicto, red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar, cui prodest scelus in fecit, culpam paena premit comes, O would the deed were good!, responsibility prevents crimes se judice nemo noce, so many laws argues so many sins.

Transcursion

N transcursion, transiliency, transgression, trespass, encroachment, infringement, extravagation, transcendence, redundancy, surpassing, beyond the mark, ahead.