trespass

Meanings

Noun

• An intentional interference with another's property or person.
• sin

Verb

• To commit an offence; to sin.
• To offend against, to wrong (someone).
• To go too far; to put someone to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude.
• To enter someone else's property illegally.
• To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.
• To decree that a person shall be arrested for trespassing if he or she returns to someone else's land.

Origin

• Borrowed into Middle English trespas, from Old French trespas ("passage; offense against the law"), from trespasser.
• From Old French trespasser ("to go across or over, transgress"), from tres- + passer.