Reformatory
[rɪ'fɔːmət(ə)rɪ] or [rɪ'fɔrmətɔri]
Definition
(noun.) correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders.
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Definition
(a.) Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
(n.) An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Reforming.
Typist: Merritt
Examples
- The matron at the Reformatory had reported her to my lady as a sincerely penitent and thoroughly trustworthy girl. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Those two, and the matron at the reformatory, are the only good people I have ever met with in all my life. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I had gone to the reformatory from the prison. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Miss Ophelia, after passing on her reformatory tour through all the other parts of the establishment, now entered the kitchen. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Lady Verinder took me out of a reformatory. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It was only when they had taught me at the reformatory to feel my own degradation, and to try for better things, that the days grew long and weary. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Rosanna Spearman came to my aunt out of a reformatory? Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My mistress dwelt strongly on Rosanna's good conduct in her service, and on the high opinion entertained of her by the matron at the reformatory. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- My lady doesn't know, the matron at the reformatory doesn't know, what a dreadful reproach honest people are in themselves to a woman like me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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