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What does transgressing mean?

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  1. present participle of transgress
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This includes employment, especially with regard to work perceived as countering traditional roles and transgressing social norms.
The Penal Law on Environment for instance, stipulates that any action transgressing the law on environmental conservation, protection and improvement is an offence and imposes sentences of imprisonment and fines.
Still, I'm not sure that merely transgressing social boundaries or taboos makes him any kind of trickster.
Some were maligned as apostates or heretics, and a few were imprisoned, allegedly for transgressing societal mores.
It may also be used to punish women for transgressing social or moral codes, for instance, those prohibiting adultery or drunkenness in public.
He was last night found guilty of transgressing rugby rules when he tackled an opponent without the ball and has been suspended for six weeks.

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