Transgresses Sentence Examples

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  • He must be perfectly unembarrassed in the service of God, not bound by the common ties of life, nor entangled by relationships, which if he transgresses he will lose the character of a man of honour, while if he upholds them he will cease to be the messenger, watchman and herald of the gods.

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  • There is (I) the story of a bride or bridegroom who transgresses a commandment of a mystic nature, and disappears as a result of the sin.

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  • If any one transgresses this necessary Rule, he shall each time forfeit one shilling.

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  • He sometimes transgresses against the rules of composition of contemporary art-music, and is stylistically very distinct from it.

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