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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who transgresses; one who breaks a law or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner; an offender.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

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  • noun Someone who transgresses.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command

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Examples

  • A "transgressor" is another word for "sinner" (in Ga 2: 17), for "sin is the transgression of the law."

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • So she walked on, a small, miserable testimony that the way of the transgressor is never easy, even when said transgressor is only a damsel of eleven.

    The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

  • Now, in this land the path of the transgressor is strewn with barbed wire, and so my mistress got entangled in some loose strands that had uncoiled from the fence.

    Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

  • Under the word transgressor are included all those that disobey their maker, or, in shorter words, the ungodly.

    Eugene Field A Study In Heredity And Contradictions Thompson, Slason 1901

  • But 'the way of the transgressor is hard,' Mr. Le Noir, and he who sins must suffer.

    The Hidden Hand 1888

  • Thou wast called, and not miscalled, a transgressor from the womb.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721

  • D.J. - and "transgressor" - not unlike a graffiti artist.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • D.J. - and "transgressor" - not unlike a graffiti artist.

    NYT > Home Page 2010

  • But man is not called a transgressor from not following the instigations of the “fomes,” but rather from his following them.

    The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas Dino Bigongiari 1997

  • Yea, thou heardest not; yea, thou knewest not; yea, from that time that thine ear was not opened: for I knew that thou wouldest deal very treacherously, and wast called a transgressor from the womb.

    Isaiah 48. 1999

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