Reform(v. t.)
- To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals.
Reform(v. i.)
- To return to a good state; to amend or correct one's own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
Reform(n.)
- Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
Reformabilities
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Reformability
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Reformableness
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Reformalize(v. i.)
- To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
Reformate
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Reformated
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Reformates
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Reformating
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Reformation(n.)
- The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.
Reformation(n.)
- Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches.
Reformational
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Reformations
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Reformative(a.)
- Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.
Reformatively
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Reformativeness
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Reformed(a.)
- Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France, Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches.
Reformed(a.)
- Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
Reformed(a.)
- Retained in service on half or full pay after the disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.
Reformedly
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Reformer(n.)
- One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
Reformer(n.)
- One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.
Reformers
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Reforming
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Reformingly
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Reformings
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Reformism
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Reformisms
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Reformly(adv.)
- In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform.
Reforms
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