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/ˌɹɛfɝˈmeɪʃən/
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[ UK /ɹɪfɔːmˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /ɹɪfɔːmˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
the reclamation of delinquent children - 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
How To Use reformation In A Sentence
- Portfolio assessment is one of important mode of qualitative evaluation, it was paid more and more attention under the background of educational evaluation reformation by people.
- Brahma gyan or realisation of truth alone will bring about a reformation, helping to establish lasting peace.
- It was believed that the east window of the church dated back to the Reformation period.
- People who longed for a more thorough introduction of Reformation principles during the reigns from Henry VIII to James I heavily relied on the Old Testament.
- Starting new ones will only compound the problem: the traditionalist is in the same boat as the liberal to the extent that both are prisoners of a denominational market (p. 205), even when appeal is constantly being made to the model of Reformation confessio - or even early Christian martyrdom. Ramsey Lecture - Durham - 'The Lutheran Catholic'
- Early modern religion emerged with the Protestant Reformation. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
- The very next year the Council formally introduced the evil which they called ecclesiastical reformation. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
- At regular intervals along these walls occur little towers, for their defence, reminding one of beads strung on a rosary; the great watch-tower at the gate, with its projecting machicolation, forming the pendent cross, -- the whole serving to guard the town within from the dangers of war, even as the rosary protects the city of Mansoul from the attacks of Sin and Death -- though, sooth to say, since the invention of gunpowder and the Reformation, both the one and the other appear to have lost much of their former efficacy. Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers
- Similarly, there is a “disposition, an aptitude, a preformation, which determines our soul and brings it about that [necessary truths] are derivable from it.” Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Associated Press In the centuries after the Reformation, some Protestants, notably the Puritans in England, sought to ban Christmas celebrations as pagan bacchanals, which they often were. No Church This Sunday—It's Christmas