transgressor

Examples of transgress

transgress
To ground certainty on assent involving the will transgresses the accepted epistemological norm that certainty implies necessity.
Finally, there is almost always some probability that the sovereign will transgress in the face of a co-ordinated revolt.
However, this decoding depends on a simultaneous appreciation of martyrdom as a radical act which transgresses, even obliterates, key boundaries.
Fines would be levied by a vote of finance ministers, with the transgressing nation excluded from voting.
The author's strategy for governing was to make an example by punishing the leaders of those who transgressed.
This is why the outcome where the sovereign does not transgress is interpreted as the status quo.
At a transition state the boundary of an operating region is reached and transgressed.
Women who transgressed this spatial segregation were inevitably stigmatised, and young women were rarely seen in the streets past 15-16 years old.
He has exaggerated and transgressed the limits of the acceptable.
There are in fact many discourse systems overlapping and transgressing one another to create our identities.
Perhaps this is a problem inherent to the use of case studies, which, in their richness, transgress the aims of the study.
They turned to them for their knowledge, of the law and hence of their rights, and for protection against those who would transgress them.
The suggestion is that one would sooner transgress the weaker right.
If these are transgressed, either the service or the friendship can be jeopardised.
The suggestion is that transgressing the stronger right requires a more important goal.
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