trespass
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
trespass
- sin [1290]
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Matthew [http://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1611_Matthew-Chapter-6/#14–15 6:14–15]:
- Forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us
- (legal) At common law, any of various torts involving intentional interference of another's property or person. Modernly, trespass survives as the following torts: Battery, Assault, False Imprisonment, Trespass to Land, and Trespass to Chattels.
- German: Hausfriedensbruch, Landfriedensbruch
- Portuguese: invasão
- Russian: посяга́тельство
- Spanish: allanamiento, traspaso, invasión, incursión
trespass (trespasses, present participle trespassing; past and past participle trespassed)
- (intransitive, now rare) To commit an offence; to sin.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, 2 Chronicles 28:22 ↗:
- In the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord.
- (transitive, obsolete) To offend against, to wrong (someone).
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 6:14
- And forgeve us oure trespases, even as we forgeve them which trespas us.
- 1526, Bible, tr. William Tyndale, Matthew 6:14
- (intransitive) To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
- to trespass upon the time or patience of another
- (legal) To enter someone else's property illegally.
- (obsolete) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
- Soon after this, noble Robert de Bruce […] trespassed out of this uncertain world.
- (transitive) To decree that a person shall be arrested for trespassing if he or she returns to someone else's land.
- The dean trespassed the streaker from his university.
- (commit an offence) transgress
- (go too far) cross the line
- (pass beyond a limit or boundary) exceed, surpass, transcend; see also Thesaurus:transcend
- German: unbefugt betreten, unerlaubt betreten, eindringen
- Portuguese: invadir
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