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violator|ˈvaɪəleɪtə(r)|
Also 6–7 -our.
[a. L. violātor, agent-noun f. violāre to violate. So F. violateur (OF. violatour), It. violatore, Sp. and Pg. violador. Cf. violater.]
1. A ravisher or outrager of women.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 33 Sardanapallus, a man hauenge grete delectacion of women, and a violator of þeim. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 41 That Angelo is an adulterous thiefe, An hypocrite, a virgin violator. 1748Richardson Clarissa VI. 327 If, by vowing love and honour at the altar to such a violator, I could sanctify..his unprecedented and elaborate wickedness. 1864Tennyson Boadicea 50 Me the sport of ribald Veterans, mine of ruffian violators!
2. A desecrator or profaner of something sacred or venerable.
1577Holinshed Chron. II. 825/1 But Guye de Mountfort was excommunicate, as a violatour of the churche. 1591in Jas. Campbell Balmerino & Abbey (1867) iii. ii. 178 Ordanis the sessione of the kirk of Balmerinoch to cause violatoris of the Sabbath day publictlie to make publict repentance thairfor. 1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. II) 13 The persecuters of those who submit themselves are to me in equal execration with the violatours of sepulchers. 1665Manley Grotius' Low C. Wars 30 Commanding the Inquisitors to execute judgement upon violators, and novelties in Religion. 1841Lytton Nt. & Morn. i. i, Now..glared upon the startled violators of the sanctuary, with glassy eyes and horrent visage, a grim monster. 1865Baring-Gould Were-Wolves xv. 250 It is well known that Oriental romance is full of stories of violators of graves. 1898Meredith Odes Fr. Hist., Rev. x, They, violators of home, dared hope an inviolate home.
3. An infringer, breaker, or transgressor (of a law, compact, etc.).
1642C. Vernon Consid. Exch. 104 That due punishment be inflicted upon the violators thereof. 1644Milton M. Bucer Wks. 1851 IV. 331 They..are no more in bondage to such violators of Marriage. 1676Temple Let. to Sir J. Williamson 21 Mar., Nor could it easily be found out how the Violator of any such Passport should be punished. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. I. 16 The Violator of the Laws of the Society. 1775De Lolme Eng. Const. ii. xvi. (1784) 239 To give up the violators of these laws. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1820) 199 Whoever thought wrong,..was a flagrant violator of the inestimable liberty of conscience. 1881Jowett Thucyd. I. 76 Those who attack others, not those who defend themselves, are the real violators of treaties.
4. One who injures, disturbs, or interrupts violently.
1792A. Young Trav. France 31 The incendiaries, robbers, and violators of mankind. 1828–32Webster s.v., A violator of repose. |