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What does transgression mean?

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Noun
  1. A violation of a law, duty or commandment
  2. An act that goes beyond generally accepted boundaries
  3. A relative rise in sea level resulting in deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
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Within taboo and transgression the interplay between the profane and the sacred is a dangerous one.
In many circles of the Qawwal, tribute is paid to the mystic in words that entail transgression in terms of polytheism.
The latter, a series of ferruginous shelly sands, are the only preserved in situ product of the late Miocene-early Pliocene marine transgression.
In an expiatory sacrifice the blood which is shed is regarded as wiping out a transgression.
Thou wilt bring eternal doom on all frowardness and transgression, and Thy righteousness will stand revealed in the sight of all Thou hast made.
It argues that the prose poem is a medium for the transgression of genre rules, for experiment and literary change.

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