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say it: tranz-GRESH-uhn
transgression is a noun meaning "the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle". It is pronounced /tɹænzˈɡɹɛʃən/ — tranz-GRESH-uhn. It carries 3 recorded senses.
the act of transgressing; the violation of a law or a duty or moral principle
“the boy was punished for the transgressions of his father”
the spreading of the sea over land as evidenced by the deposition of marine strata over terrestrial strata
the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for transgression come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.