transgressor

trans·gress

T0318100 (trăns-grĕs′, trănz-)v. trans·gressed, trans·gress·ing, trans·gress·es v.tr.1. To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep: "to make sure that her characters didn't transgress the parameters of ordinariness" (Ron Rosenbaum).2. To act in violation of (the law, for example).v.intr.1. To commit an offense by violating a law, principle, or duty.2. To spread over land, especially over the land along a subsiding shoreline. Used of the sea.

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[Middle English transgressen, from Old French transgresser, from Latin trānsgredī, trānsgress-, to step across : trāns-, trans- + gradī, to go; see ghredh- in Indo-European roots.]

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trans·gress′i·ble adj.trans·gres′sor n.

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Noun

1.

transgressor - someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command; "the way of transgressors is hard"offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law

Translations

trasgressore