Synonyms:
transgression, evildoing
Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
This punishment has for its end to warn, to protect and to oppose cruelty and transgression so that other men may not be tyrannical.
There I sat, and heard him: and most strangely have those words of his peroration planted themselves in my brain, when, rising to a passion of prophecy, he shouted: 'And as in the one case, transgression was followed by catastrophe swift and universal, so, in the other, I warn the entire race to look out thenceforth for nothing from God but a lowering sky, and thundery weather.'
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