transgressor
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of transgressor
First recorded in 1350–1400; from Anglo-French, from Latin, equivalent to transgress ( def. ) + -or 2 ( def. )
Explanation
You can use the noun transgressor for anyone who violates a rule or oversteps a boundary. You are being a transgressor, for example, when you bring your barking dog into the library. A car thief is one kind of transgressor, a person who is actually breaking the law. Another kind of transgressor is someone who betrays an agreement or an unstated rule of behavior, like not wearing full clown makeup to a non-circus-related job interview. The word transgressionem is at the root of transgressor, and it means "a transgression of the law" in Late Latin or "a going over" in classical Latin.
Vocabulary lists containing transgressor
The Odyssey
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The Suffix -or, Part 2
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Internment
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Example Sentences
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As readers galloped through his best-selling autobiography, The Way of a Transgressor, their wonder grew how a man could avoid cracking up even halfway through such adventures.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Way of a Transgressor, with its tone of amiable rowdyism, will remind readers of Bruce Lockhart's British Agent.
From Time Magazine Archive
In a close-fitting travelling-dress she looked unusually slim, almost boyish, and something about her attitude rather suggested a youthful knight, sword in hand, come with vengeance to the Transgressor.
From Winding Paths by Page, Gertrude
He has not kept his pledge to the committee by dying with the Transgressor who was assigned to him.
From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Adams, Francis A.
This particular Transgressor is Ephraim Barnaby, the Pennsylvania iron king.
From The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin by Adams, Francis A.
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