transgressive adjective. [tranz'grɛsɪv, trɑ:nz-, -ns-] M17.
[from TRANSGRESS verb + -IVE.]
1. Involving or pertaining to transgression; in mod. use spec. denoting or relating to writing, cinema, or art in which orthodox cultural, moral, or artistic boundaries are challenged by the representation of unconventional behaviour and the use of experimental forms. M17.
Times Literary Supplement The enormous transgressive force of the poem has been lost.

2. Geology. Of a stratum: overlapping or overlapped by another stratum unconformably, esp. as a result of marine transgression. M19.

► In 19 only in Geology use.

■ transgressively adverb M19.

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