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Definition of "transgressing" [transgressing]

  • Present participle of transgress. (verb)

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Use "transgressing" in a sentence
  • ""hyperbolic" comedy, in transgressing those limits, holds up to the prosaic discourse of gastronomy a phantasmagoric, poeticizing, mirror in which the voice of the other talks back."
  • "Wherefore it goes on, “Making the word of God of none effect through your traditions, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye;” transgressing, that is, the commands of God, that ye may observe the traditions of men."
  • "By reinscribing the idea of transgressing or transversing gender within a traditional gender binary-man in a woman's body, woman in a man's body-it contradicts goals shared by many transgendered and transsexual people: to live their lives as they desire, free of the gender binary."