Reform Synonyms & Definitions

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• ReformDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To return to a good state; to amend or correct ones own character or habits; as, a man of settled habits of vice will seldom reform.
2. (n.) Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
3. (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.

• ReformalizeDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (v. i.) To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.

• ReformationDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (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.
2. (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.