Definitions
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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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
Etymologies
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Examples
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A "transgressor" is another word for "sinner" (in Ga 2: 17), for "sin is the transgression of the law."
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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.
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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.
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Under the word transgressor are included all those that disobey their maker, or, in shorter words, the ungodly.
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But 'the way of the transgressor is hard,' Mr. Le Noir, and he who sins must suffer.
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Thou wast called, and not miscalled, a transgressor from the womb.
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D.J. - and "transgressor" - not unlike a graffiti artist.
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D.J. - and "transgressor" - not unlike a graffiti artist.
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But man is not called a transgressor from not following the instigations of the “fomes,” but rather from his following them.
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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.
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