Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Reformation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Reformation \Ref`or*ma"tion\ (r?f`?r*m?"sh?n), n. [F.
r['e]formation, L. reformatio.]
1. 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.
Satire lashes vice into reformation. --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Re-formation \Re`-for*ma"tion\ (r?`f?r*m?"sh?n), n.
The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the
reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Reformation
n 1: a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an
attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted
in the creation of Protestant churches [syn: {Reformation}]
2: assembling again [syn: {reassembly}, {refabrication}]
3: rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course [syn:
{reclamation}]
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