Crossword clues for transgressor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transgressively \Trans*gress"ive*ly\, adv.
Adam, perhaps, . . . from the transgressive infirmities
of himself, might have erred alone.
--Sir T.
Browne.
[1913 Webster] Transgressor \Trans*gress"or\, n. [L.: cf. F.
transgresseur.]
One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a
command; one who violates any known rule or principle of
rectitude; a sinner.
The way of transgressors is hard.
--Prov. xiii.
15.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Anglo-French transgressour, Old French transgressor (14c.), and directly from Latin transgressor, agent noun from transgredi (see transgression).
Wiktionary
alt. Someone who transgresses. n. Someone who transgresses.
WordNet
n. someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command; "the way of transgressors is hard"
Usage examples of "transgressor".
The path of originality is even harder than the path of the transgressor, because the stakes for which the man of genius plays are so tremendous.
The family of the bereaved may demand blood-price of the transgressor, and how else might the world be?
This led to stories of the penalises paid by transgressors of the great sins.
My reverend father took this matter greatly to heart, and bestirred himself in the good cause till the transgressors were ashamed to shew their faces.
But those transgressors who were lucky enough to survive the Kachinaar would never again go astray.
Michael counted the piece about transgressors at least twenty different times.
They ordered the crossbowmen to shoot the transgressors, but it takes some time to wind up those ungainly weapons.
He preached, he reproved, he set unreasonable penances, he stared chillingly out of his three huge orbs, he waggled a flexible finger or windmilled all four arms or sent his blobby green countenance through the most hideous contortions as he quacked about what transgressors we were.
There were so many unavowable pleasures these days, which required a human cloak to cover the identity of the real transgressor, that people like Master and Mistress Endicott prospered vastly.
Plebeian transgressors were legally chastised with stripes and imprisonment.
For example: The most serious punishment/rehabilitation meted out in many African tribes for capital crimes was forcing the transgressor to smoke massive amounts of dagga (cannabis) non-stop for hours on end in a small, enclosed hut until he passes out literally unconscious from inhaling the fumes.
By a decree dated the 26th of June 1559, it declared all persons who should be present at duels, or aiding and abetting in them, to be rebels to the King, transgressors of the law, and disturbers of the public peace.
Perhaps half those who are convicted of crimes are as capable of reformation as half those transgressors who are not convicted, or who keep inside the statutory law.
They reason thus because they are unable to comprehend that even venial sin is of such a foul and hideous nature that even if the omnipotent Creator could end all the evil and misery in the world, the wars, the diseases, the robberies, the crimes, the deaths, the murders, on condition that he allowed a single venial sin to pass unpunished, a single venial sin, a lie, an angry look, a moment of wilful sloth, He, the great omnipotent God could not do so because sin, be it in thought or deed, is a transgression of His law and God would not be God if He did not punish the transgressor.
Now a man is counted great if only he be not a transgressor, and if he can only endure with patience what he hath undertaken.