transgressor

Examples of transgressed

transgressed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

The author's strategy for governing was to make an example by punishing the leaders of those who transgressed.
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.
If these are transgressed, either the service or the friendship can be jeopardised.
One studies situations of extreme instability to learn where the boundaries lie and how the system behaves when they are transgressed.
And did their confusion actually stem from critiques of the works' generic status, a realization that the music had transgressed the boundaries of its type?
But it is an easily transgressed border, and the forces of disorder slip in with ease to disrupt the illusory status quo.
Medical borders were not "invented" recently; they have a long history and will continue to be constructed and transgressed.
For some, asking for help transgressed implicit expectations underpinning the relationship.
The boundary of wretched practitioners and refined doctors is again transgressed, and she even scorns the insufficiency of scientific knowledge.
If disciplinary guidelines are transgressed, conventional appeals to evidence or logic are made irrelevant.
Off the equilibrium path, both citizen groups co-ordinate to challenge if rights are transgressed.
What was even more exciting was watching how the amorphous space of the moving performance transgressed that of the stationary - the former reducing the latter to complete submission and subjugation.
The epistemology of active principles demonstrably transgressed the boundaries of mechanism and vitalism, and its claim to competence transgressed the boundaries of priestcraft, economy, and physic.
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