define transgression
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity. [1]
We’re a video dictionary, but we’re new and there are many words in the English language. [2]
In the same way when John said: “SIN is the transgression of the law”, he meant that SIN is the generic term which covers all specific transgressions of God’s Ten Commandment law, such as stealing, murder or sabbath breaking. [3]
Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law. [1]
Syn: Crime; sin; iniquity; fault. [...] A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance. [4]
Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong. [1]
An officer holding rank next below an admiral. [4]
Conversely, the Christian who does not yet know to keep the sabbath is not held to be guilty of COMMITTING sin - for in order to commit sin one must deliberately break a known law of God. [3]
A civil officer, in Great Britain, appointed by the lords commissioners of the admiralty for exercising admiralty jurisdiction within their respective districts. [...] The buffoon of the old English moralities, or moral dramas, having the name sometimes of one vice, sometimes of another, or of Vice itself; — called also {Iniquity}. [4]
Vice is more distinctively that which springs from the inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which are in themselves innocent. [1]
CRIME IS THE BREAKING OF THE LAW. [...] Instead, he was saying that a person is guilty of sin (transgression of the law) if he eats food which he believes God has forbidden him to eat. [3]
{Vice presidency}, the office of vice president. [4]
Sources:
[1] crime - Definition of crime at Define.com Dictionary and …
[2] Meaning of transgression
[3] THE DEFINITION OF SIN
[4] vice - Definition of vice at Define.com Dictionary and …