aggressor

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aggressor - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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aggressor - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

aggressor - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  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.