Reformation
[refə'meɪʃ(ə)n] or [,rɛfɚ'meʃən]
解释:
(noun.) 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.
(noun.) improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs.
整理:拉尔夫--From WordNet
解释:
(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.
(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.
克劳德特录入
同义词及近义词：
n. Amendment, reform, correction, change for the better.
手打:路德维格
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Amendment, reform, improvement, correction,[See CORRECTION]
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例句:
- The times were full of stir and intellectual intereSt. The distant murmur of the Reformation was beginning to be heard. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- Lambert (1728-1777), Kant found a genius akin to his own, and through him hoped for a reformation of philosophy on the basis of the study of science. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- We have already told something of the popular attempts at Reformation in Bohemia and Germany. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Sorel cites primitive Christianity, the Reformation, the French Revolution and the Mazzini campaign. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- If, before the late reformation of the gold coin, for example, there had been a seignorage of five per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The reformation of the gold coin has evidently raised the value of the silver coin which can be exchanged for it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The silver coin still continues in the same worn and degraded state as before the reformation of the cold coin. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- They universally, therefore, established the reformation in their own dominions. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The Reformation according to the common man was very different in spirit from the Princely Reformation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The printing press was the handmaid of the Reformation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- The French coin was, before the late reformation of the English gold coin, much less wore than the English, and was perhaps two or three per cent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The reader will perhaps be startled at the idea of a Pope having a son, but this, we must remember, was a pre-reformation Pope. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Since the reformation of the gold coin, the market price of standard gold bullion seldom exceeds ? 3:17:7 an ounce. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The interest and opposition of such favoured subjects, are the obstacles most likely to prevent this, or any other reformation of the same kind. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Before the reformation of the gold coin, the market price was always more or less above the mint price. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- The finances of France seem, in their present state, to admit of three very obvious reformations. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
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