Definition Of transgress
infringe or go beyond the bounds of (a moral principle or other established standard of behavior).
she had transgressed an unwritten social law
Example Of transgress
Are gay students going to be the only students whose transgressions would be kept secret from their parents?
As the sea level rose in the early to middle Holocene, dunes on the low-gradient shelf were transgressed and provided the core for the modern offshore sandy shoals.
At some point during the lower Devonian, the sea began to transgress again, and this continued through the deposition of the Port Ewen formation.
Before 6pm, I'd feel I was transgressing an unwritten rule.
But we apparently choose to make an example out of petty transgressors such as these to lull ourselves into the belief that we're winning the battle against crime!