transgressive
pronunciation
How to pronounce transgressive in British English:
UK [træns'gresɪvnɪs]
How to pronounce transgressive in American English:
US [trænsˈɡrɛsɪv, trænz-]
Word Origin
- transgressive (adj.)
- 1640s, "inclined to transgress," from transgress + -ive. Related: Transgressively.
Example
- 1. Do you ever fear to be transgressive or weird ?
- 2. Bronzed skin was both fashionable and transgressive .
- 3. Transgressive event ; event paleogeography ; the coal accumulation of transgressive event .
- 4. This thesis is divided into three parts : chapter one discusses the relationship between self-liberation and the transgressive use of sexual descriptions .
- 5. Centering on " crossing frontiers , " chapter four analyzes how the diasporic subject , motivated by the metropolitan emergent discourse , adopts the transgressive act of cultural translation to liberate itself from the myth of unitary identity .