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transgressor|trɑːnsˈgrɛsə(r), træns-, -nz-|
Also 4–7 -our, 6 -er.
[a. AF. transgressour = F. transgresseur (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), a. late L. transgressōr-em, agent-n. from transgredī to transgress.]
One who transgresses; a law-breaker; a sinner.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. i. 96 And taken trangressores [v.r. transgressouris] and tyen hem faste. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 263 He..did chide the transgressores of the lawes. 1463–4Rolls of Parlt. V. 502/2 To committe the transgressours..to the next Gaole. 1526Tindale Jas. ii. 9 Ye commit synne, and are rebuked off the lawe as transgressours. Ibid. 11 Thou arte a transgresser off the lawe. 1638Penit. Conf. viii. (1657) 235 His Conscience arraigneth him..as a Transgressor. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 164 Such title should belonge To me transgressour, who for thee ordaind A help, became thy snare. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 100 Whoever shall transgress the strains by law established is a transgressor of the laws. |