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Transgressor definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TRANSGRESS'OR, n. One who breaks a law or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.
The way of transgressors is hard. Proverbs 13.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command; "the way of transgressors is hard"

Merriam Webster's

noun see transgress

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Transgressively Trans*gress"ive*ly, adv. Adam, perhaps, . . . from the transgressive infirmities of himself, might have erred alone. --Sir T. Browne. Transgressor Trans*gress"or, n. [L.: cf. F. transgresseur.] One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner. The way of transgressors is hard. --Prov. xiii. 15.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(transgressors) A transgressor is someone who has broken a particular rule or law or has done something that is generally considered unacceptable. (FORMAL) N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Offender, trespasser, culprit, delinquent, sinner, evil-doer.

Moby Thesaurus

bad person, criminal, crook, culprit, deceiver, delinquent, evil man, evil person, evildoer, felon, gangster, lawbreaker, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, miscreant, misdemeanant, misdemeanist, misfeasor, mobster, offender, outlaw, public enemy, racketeer, sinner, thief, trespasser, villain, worker of ill, wrongdoer