violator
noun
Forms violators violater
- noun One who violates (a rule, a boundary, another person's body, etc.); offender
- noun (literary, euphemistic) One who violates another person's body as through forced sexual activity
- noun In the publishing and packaging industries, a visual element that intentionally "violates" the underlying design, such as a starburst, color bar or "splat" on a product package or magazine cover intended to attract special attention.
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Etymology
From Middle English violator, from Latin violātor. By surface analysis, violate + -or.
Webster’s 1913
Etymology [L.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “violator”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details