What's the difference between transgress and trespass?

Transgress


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To pass over or beyond; to surpass.
  • (v. t.) Hence, to overpass, as any prescribed as the /imit of duty; to break or violate, as a law, civil or moral.
  • (v. t.) To offend against; to vex.
  • (v. i.) To offend against the law; to sin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It appears likely to argue that it has already taken steps to deal with coaches and lab technicians who transgressed and insist that there is not enough evidence for Russia to be suspended.
  • (2) Its specific applications in surgical planning include the question of chest wall invasion, brachial plexus involvement, and transgression of the diaphragm, pericardium, or lung apex.
  • (3) After transgressing of the pathological process to the state of fibrosis the vessels were showing a striped course presenting a greater number of broncho-pulmonary anastomoses.
  • (4) Both materials elicited a surrounding inflammatory reaction containing macrophages which transgressed the interstices of only the PGA prostheses.
  • (5) A case of malignant astrocytoma in the frontoparietal parasagittal region with transgression into the overlying dura mater and the skull is presented.
  • (6) Renal cell carcinomas were single, unilateral, nonwedge-shaped, and exophytic, and easily transgressed the renal capsule.
  • (7) And that voice like a whip-crack: impish, transgressive, swooping from a mutter to a scream.
  • (8) Resisting widely-accepted norms involves varying levels of inconvenience and risk, from women getting funny looks on the bus if they’ve not shaved their legs all the way through to rape and murder for more grave “transgressions”.
  • (9) When both spouses described their mates as transgressive and themselves as ineffectual responders to transgression, the dysfunction reported by both spouses was pronounced.
  • (10) She said: "To date, the UK Border Force can do little more than accuse me of intending to possibly commit a future transgression, as it has been forced to admit there has been none.
  • (11) The combat against the streptococcal infection by means of penicillin transgresses into a recidivation prophylaxis with benzathin-penicillin, which is to be performed up to an age of 5 years.
  • (12) Feinstein, in an extraordinary Senate floor speech, said the CIA had transgressed its constitutional boundaries and prompted a crisis, one that the CIA inspector general is examining.
  • (13) More than 200 people complained about transgressions including swearing before the 9pm watershed, when Cocozza shouted "fucking have it, get in there" after avoiding being voted out, and glamorising alcohol abuse in clips showing him partying in London nightclubs.
  • (14) "You do get blasts every now and then about talks or items within political programmes or current affairs programmes where people feel that we have transgressed our impartiality ethos.
  • (15) Joey's slap in the face to his parents is certainly transgressive, "a stunning act of sedition and a dagger to Patty's heart".
  • (16) It is "a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity, or the interposition of some invisible agent."
  • (17) Speaking on Monday morning, Hanningfield, a 73-year-old former pig farmer, stopped short of offering an apology for his latest transgression, but said that he had not known what he was doing was wrong and intends to return to the House of Lords after his suspension.
  • (18) We concluded that aseptic practices, as routinely performed without any noticeable breaks or transgressions, do not guarantee sterility.
  • (19) His decision to re-integrate Bardsley following a couple of serious disciplinary transgressions during Paolo Di Canio's tenure was rewarded by the full-back's second goal in two games.
  • (20) However, the manner in which this new system is being implemented in some cases transgresses some fundamental principles of MCQ examinations.

Trespass


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
  • (v. i.) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.
  • (v. i.) To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.
  • (v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.
  • (v.) Any injury or offence done to another.
  • (v.) Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.
  • (v.) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.
  • (v.) An action for injuries accompanied with force.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) There is no justification for snooping in private accounts unless you have a reason to do so, and you have the authority to do that.” He said he had been cautioned by the police once, for trespassing on the railway during a protest against coal about two years ago.
  • (2) He said he was stopped by a Hi Tech security guard who yelled at him that they were trespassing and demanded his driver’s licence.
  • (3) It is hard to imagine any form of drafting that would not criminalise any contemporary form of the Kinder Scout trespass, or direct action protest occupations.
  • (4) Tennis Australia apologises for Bernard Tomic 'Hall of Shame' typo Read more When police arrived they allegedly told him he was being evicted from the hotel and gave him a trespass warning.
  • (5) Nick Hurst, a Tory councillor for Stroud district council, is quoted in the survey saying: “There are a number of areas where the NHS should not trespass.
  • (6) The four people arrested in the Gloucestershire cull zone were held on suspicion of aggravated trespass after police responded to reports of horns being blown and individuals straying from a public footpath.
  • (7) Environmental activists who were arrested before they could execute a planned shutdown of a coal-fired power station near Nottingham in April last year were today convicted of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass.
  • (8) Once served, the trespassers have 24 hours to vacate or face arrest.
  • (9) They were eventually removed by a paramedic and arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass, according to the group Workers' Climate Action , which is calling for the Vestas plant to be nationalised.
  • (10) In the late 1960s he went into voluntary seclusion in New Hampshire and there he stayed, a peculiar man attracted to fringe religious movements, warding off interviewers, film people, fans, trespassers.
  • (11) Linguistic trespassers will be prosecuted with a hefty fine.
  • (12) The location is likely to afford Assange some privacy, since it is impossible to reach the manor house without trespassing on Smith's land.
  • (13) The government defended the arrests and said the BBC crew were trespassing.
  • (14) After almost five hours on the roof last night, some of the protesters climbed down one by one using a ladder and safety harness, and were arrested for trespassing on a "protected site".
  • (15) The frequency of warnings to intelligence agency staff about the dangers of trespassing on private records is at odds with ministers’ repeated public reassurances that only terrorists and serious criminals are having their personal details compromised.
  • (16) Four people campaigning against Britain’s use of armed drones have been arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass.
  • (17) Twenty-six activists were later charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass.
  • (18) This is a population which in large part has no option but to trespass.
  • (19) The deals done here fuel death, injury, fear and repression – yet instead of banning it, the government helps make it happen.” Those who felt impelled to draw attention to this anomaly were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass.
  • (20) His zone of trespass moreover, has expanded over the years to include National Park Service and state lands, including the latter’s Overton Wildlife Manage Area.