transgress
verb (used without object)
am transgressing
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present progressiveof transgress (1st person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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I am transgressing the doctor's orders in seeing any body.
From Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
But I am transgressing the rule I laid down for myself in the outset of these stories—not to prate much about my own pets.
From Stories about Animals: with Pictures to Match by Francis C. (Francis Channing) Woodworth
I know I am transgressing, but, I assure you, the occasion warrants it.
From Lost Man's Lane A Second Episode in the Life of Amelia Butterworth by Anna Katharine Green
Hence throughout the lectures I shall not scruple to refer constantly to religious practice as well as to religious theory, without feeling that thereby I am transgressing the proper limits of my subject.
From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) The Belief Among the Aborigines of Australia, the Torres Straits Islands, New Guinea and Melanesia by Sir James George Frazer
But I find that I am transgressing the first rule which my excellent masters laid down, viz., never to speak of oneself.
From Recollections of My Youth by Ernest Renan
