Also 4–7 -our, 6 -er. [a. AF. transgressour = F. transgresseur (14th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), a. late L. transgressōr-em, agent-n. from transgredī to TRANSGRESS.] One who transgresses; a law-breaker; a sinner.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. I. 96. And taken trangressores [v.r. transgressouris] and tyen hem faste.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls) III. 263. He … did chide the transgressores of the lawes.
1463–4. Rolls of Parlt., V. 502/2. To committe the transgressours … to the next Gaole.
1526. Tindale, Jas. ii. 9. Ye commit synne, and are rebuked off the lawe as transgressours. Ibid., 11. Thou arte a transgresser off the lawe.
1638. Penit. Conf., viii. (1657), 235. His Conscience arraigneth him … as a Transgressor.
1667. Milton, P. L., XI. 164. Such title should belonge To me transgressour, who for thee ordaind A help, became thy snare.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), V. 100. Whoever shall transgress the strains by law established is a transgressor of the laws.
