Reformation
[refə'meɪʃ(ə)n] or [,rɛfɚ'meʃən]
Definition
(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.
Typist: Ralph--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Amendment, reform, correction, change for the better.
Typist: Ludwig
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Amendment, reform, improvement, correction,[See CORRECTION]
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Examples
- The times were full of stir and intellectual intereSt. The distant murmur of the Reformation was beginning to be heard. Plato. The Republic.
- 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. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We have already told something of the popular attempts at Reformation in Bohemia and Germany. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Sorel cites primitive Christianity, the Reformation, the French Revolution and the Mazzini campaign. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- If, before the late reformation of the gold coin, for example, there had been a seignorage of five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The reformation of the gold coin has evidently raised the value of the silver coin which can be exchanged for it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The silver coin still continues in the same worn and degraded state as before the reformation of the cold coin. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They universally, therefore, established the reformation in their own dominions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Reformation according to the common man was very different in spirit from the Princely Reformation. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The printing press was the handmaid of the Reformation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- 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. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- 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. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Since the reformation of the gold coin, the market price of standard gold bullion seldom exceeds ? 3:17:7 an ounce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The interest and opposition of such favoured subjects, are the obstacles most likely to prevent this, or any other reformation of the same kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Before the reformation of the gold coin, the market price was always more or less above the mint price. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The finances of France seem, in their present state, to admit of three very obvious reformations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
Typist: Sharif