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What is the noun for transgression?

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transgression
  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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    1. “They all had vests, but not one of them had opted for a tie, another transgression in my book.”
      “Whoever dispossesses me of my possessions is guilty of a transgression against the laws of society.”
      “The latter, a series of ferruginous shelly sands, are the only preserved in situ product of the late Miocene-early Pliocene marine transgression.”
transgressive
  1. A form of verb in some languages.
  2. An individual who transgresses, or breaks social rules.
transgressiveness
  1. The state or condition of being transgressive.
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    1. “For all its wild transgressiveness, it feels cold, and even – paradoxical though this may sound – slightly formulaic.”
      “Little did I know that the avant-garde transgressiveness of the sixties was to become absolutely institutionalized and that most of the gods of high culture would be dethroned and mocked.”
      “Lady Gaga, by contrast, is all distance and transgressiveness.”
transgressour
  1. Obsolete form of transgressor.
transgressor
  1. Someone who transgresses.
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    1. “Many of the transgressions recorded in said credit records are simple oversights or no fault of the transgressor.”
      “But the film is less a policier than a post-Foucault case study of the criminal as social transgressor.”
      “It was a good thing that from any cause the transgressor should find his ways hard.”
transgressours
  1. plural of transgressour
transgressions
  1. plural of transgression
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    1. “He certainly knew what another meant, and did not relish the idea of being blown to kingdom come for his transgressions.”
      “You mentioned language and its multiple meaning, metaphorical asides, its evocative transgressions and endearing intentionality.”
      “This state is described in Psalm 51 as the result of transgressions, iniquity, sin, and evil.”
transgressives
  1. plural of transgressive
transgressors
  1. plural of transgressor
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    1. “I later heard on the radio of a large haul of confiscated illegal nets and spearguns being burnt as a warning to transgressors.”
      “Congress is looking at reforming indecency laws to be much tougher on transgressors.”
      “Just as Honiss reffed the away team as the transgressors, in Paris Peter Marshall saw wrongdoing in the Scots' approach to ruck and maul.”
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