aggressor

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

AGGRESS'OR, noun The person who first attacks; he who first commences hostility or a quarrel; an assaulter; an invader. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer.
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