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What does transgress mean?

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  1. (transitive) To exceed or overstep some limit or boundary.
  2. (transitive) To act in violation of some law.
  3. (intransitive, construed with against) To commit an offense; to sin.
  4. (intransitive, of the sea) To spread over land along a shoreline; to inundate.
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This could have been a dark novel where guilt, longing and desire transgress accepted boundaries.
They experience pain, transgress borders and limits, and come into existence in situations that are stimulated by pain.
The desire to transgress the limits and limitations of human existence is a driving force behind all art.
Is it not in its nature to transgress the limits of knowledge, thus revealing dimensions of life beyond the reach of other disciplines?
There are ways among the stone and shadow of our cloisters to transgress the Rule.
The figures, in this way, served as surrogates of the body, enabling the idea of the body to transgress social norms without consequence.

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