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transformative, a.|trɑːnsˈfɔːmətɪv, træns-, -nz-|
[ad. med.L. transformātīvus (Albertus Mag. a 1280), f. ppl. stem of L. transformāre to transform: see -ative. Cf. F. transformatif (neologism in Littré).]
a. Having the faculty of transforming; fitted or tending to transform.
1671J. Flavel Fount. Life x. 30 The Light of Christ is powerfully Transformative of its Subjects. 1681― Meth. Grace xxviii. 484 All communion with God is assimilating, and transformative of the soul into his image. 1806A. Knox Rem. (1844) I. 20 This high, heavenly, transformative Christianity. 1893J. Pulsford Loyalty to Christ II. 47 The One Divine formative and transformative Form.
b. Linguistics. = transformational a., spec. in transformative-generative adj.
1962P. Strevens Papers in Lang. (1965) v. 73 The three major modern linguistic theories (i.e. phoneme-morpheme grammar, transformative-generative grammar, and system-structure grammar). 1965Language XLI. 213 Recent interest taken by transformative-generative linguists in unidirectional transformations and unique derivations. |