Synonyms for transgression
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Noun
1. Sin — A violation of a law, duty or commandment
sin, misdeed, violation, crime, offense US, offence UK, infraction, wrong, error, misdemeanor US, misdemeanour UK, trespass, breach, fault, malfeasance, infringement, slip, delinquency, tort, peccadillo, malefaction, misdoing, delict, tortfeasance
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Definitions
- n. 1
A violation of a law, duty or commandment.
Forms
- Plural
- transgressions → sins, misdeeds, violations, crimes…
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Transgression, as its etymology indicates, is the stepping over a specific enactment, whether of God or man, ordinarily by overt act, but in the broadest sense, in volition or desire. Sin may be either act or state; transgression is always an act, mental or physical.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- crime In Singapore, it is a crime to spit on the ground.
- sin Judaism doesn't believe in heritable original sin.
- violation Guantanamo is the epitome of human rights violation.
By length
- 3 letters
- sin1
- 4 letters
- slip1, tort1
- 5 letters
- wrong1, crime1, fault1, error2
- 6 letters
- breach1, delict
- 7 letters
- offense2, offence, misdeed2
- 8 letters
- trespass2, misdoing
- 9 letters
- violation4, evildoing
- 10 letters
- infraction3, peccadillo
- 11 letters
- misdemeanor4, delinquency4, malfeasance3, malefaction
- 12 letters
- infringement3, misdemeanour, tortfeasance
- 13 letters
- contravention4, prevarication5
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (error2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- transgression
- Italiano
- trasgressione
- Español
- transgresión
- Deutsch
- Transgression