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UK
/tɹænsɡɹˈɛsɐ/
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[ US /tɹænzˈɡɹɛsɝ/ ]
[ US /tɹænzˈɡɹɛsɝ/ ]
NOUN
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someone who transgresses; someone who violates a law or command
the way of transgressors is hard
How To Use transgressor In A Sentence
- Dare I suggest, however, that some of our fellow Europeans will only pay lip service to the law and that our country would not hand out the amount of punishment required to deter transgressors?
- 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.
- Spinster and bluestocking, Niblock is also something of an outsider, an emancipated transgressor in polite Edwardian society, recalling the unsung role of the female intellectual, adventurer and agent in the birth of the modernist period; a mischievous subversion of the Victorian upper class male. Archive 2008-12-01
- They tried to deal with noisy modernity in all its forms by launching anti-noise crusades, legislating what constituted social noise and punishing transgressors, and by trying to make people and machines quieter.
- 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
- But they reveal not the secrets of the place, which are known to but One, from whose eye no dark dells or earth-emboweled caves can hide the transgressor; and the tears, the sighs, the blood -- aye, the _blood_ -- of that solitary cavern are all known to Him, are all put down by the recording angel in the archives of heaven. Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival
- He objected to the time limit and threatened £40 fine for transgressors because his wife has trouble getting around and they found it hard to shop while clock-watching.
- But 'the way of the transgressor is hard,' Mr. Le Noir, and he who sins must suffer. The Hidden Hand
- But they reveal not the secrets of the place, which are known to but One, from whose eye no dark dells or earth-emboweled caves can hide the transgressor; and the tears, the sighs, the blood -- aye, the _blood_ -- of that solitary cavern are all known to Him, are all put down by the recording angel in the archives of heaven. Eveline Mandeville The Horse Thief Rival
- 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