Word Meanings - REFORMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: REFORMATION

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. 2. Specifically , the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches. Syn. -- Reform; amendment; correction; rectification. -- Reformation, Reform. Reformation is a more thorough and comprehensive change than reform. It is applied to subjects that are more important, and results in changes which are more lasting. A reformation involves, and is followed by, many particular reforms. "The pagan converts mention this great reformation of those who had been the greatest sinners, with that sudden and surprising change which the Christian religion made in the lives of the most profligate." Addison. "A variety of schemes, founded in visionary and impracticable ideas of reform, were suddenly produced." Pitt.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REFORMATION)

• Emendation
• Correction
• amendment
• rectification
• reformation

Related words: (words related to REFORMATION)

• EMENDATION
  1. The act of altering for the better, or correcting what is erroneous or faulty; correction; improvement. "He lies in his sin without repentance or emendation." Jer. Taylor. 2. Alteration by editorial criticism, as of a text so as to give a better
• CORRECTIONER
  One who is, or who has been, in the house of correction. Shak.
• AMENDMENT
  Correction of an error in a writ or process. Syn. -- Improvement; reformation; emendation. (more info) 1. An alteration or change for the better; correction of a fault or of faults; reformation of life by quitting vices. 2. In public bodies; Any
• CORRECTION
  1. The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement. The due correction of swearing, rioting, neglect of God's word, and other scandalouss vices. Strype.
• RECTIFICATION
  The determination of a straight line whose length is equal a portion of a curve. Rectification of a globe , its adjustment preparatory to the solution of a proposed problem. (more info) 1. The act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification
• CORRECTIONAL
  Tending to, or intended for, correction; used for correction; as, a correctional institution.
• REFORMATION
  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
• PREFORMATION
  An old theory of the preëxistence of germs. Cf. Emboîtement.
• INCORRECTION
  Want of correction, restraint, or discipline. Arnway.
• UNREFORMATION
  Want of reformation; state of being unreformed. Bp. Hall.