Definition of Transgressor

1. Noun. Someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command. "The way of transgressors is hard"

Generic synonyms: Offender, Wrongdoer
Derivative terms: Transgress

Definition of Transgressor

1. n. One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.

Definition of Transgressor

1. Noun. Someone who transgresses. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Transgressor

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Transgressor

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transglycosylation
transglycosylations
transgranular
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transgressed
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transgresseth
transgressing
transgression
transgressional
transgressions
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transgressiveness
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transgressors
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transhape
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transhapes
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transhiatal
transhiatal oesophagectomy
tranship
transhipment
transhipments
transhipped
transhipping
tranships

Literary usage of Transgressor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on the Moral Government of God by Nathaniel William Taylor (1859)
"Similar error of those who hold that the legal penalty can be executed (by imputation or mystical union) on another than the transgressor. ..."

2. The history of America by William Robertson (1822)
"This I know, that I saw Francisco de Morla on such a horse, but, as an unworthy transgressor, did not deserve to see any of the holy apostles. ..."

3. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"... where he finally fell asleep with his arm flung up and across his eyes. THE WAY OF THE Transgressor. From the Same. RAND closed the heavy ledger. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(b) Being Sayings of Jesus, the Agrapha do not embrace: but if thou knowest not, thou art accursed and a transgressor of the Law." In Acts, xx, 35, ..."

5. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Emanuel Vogel Gerhart (1894)
"Otherwise the transgressor abides under condemnation, suffering the inalienable penalties of sin. Inasmuch as transgressors are by nature depraved as well ..."

6. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1897)
"A WILLING Transgressor " is a novelette of exceptional merit in its deftness of ... The transgressor is a girl whose passionate love for a man who became ..."

7. The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini by New York (N.Y.), Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan (1897)
"under the penalty, that the transgressor hereof shall pay as fine for a simple blow with the fist 25 fl. and if he causes blood to flow four times as much ..."

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