Aggressor

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aggressor \Ag*gres"sor\, n. [L.: cf. F. agresseur.]
     The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who
     begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant.
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           The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned


           to the tameness of the sufferer.         --Ames.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aggressor
       n 1: someone who attacks [syn: {attacker}, {assailant}, {assaulter}]
       2: a confident assertive person who acts as instigator

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  AGGRESSOR, crim. law. He who begins, a quarrel or dispute, either by
  threatening or striking another. No man may strike another because he has
  threatened, or in consequence of the use of any words.