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v. i.
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
v. t.
A monk of a reformed order.
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.
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.
n.
A reformer.
n.
A follower of Abdel Wahab (b. 1691; d. 1787), a reformer of Mohammedanism. His doctrines prevail particularly among the Bedouins, and the sect, though checked in its influence, extends to most parts of Arabia, and also into India.
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An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
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Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.
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One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.
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Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or drunkard.
n.
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
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.
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Capable of being reformed.
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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.
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Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
v. t.
To baptize; -- used in contempt by the Reformers.
n.
Want of reformation; state of being unreformed.
n.
A reformado.
adv.
In the manner of a reform; for the purpose of reform.
n.
One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
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