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reformist
  1. One who advocates reform (of an institution).
  2. Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
  3. (dated, 17th C.) An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
  4. (dated, 18th century) An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from ca 1790 to 1830.)
  5. A member of a reformed religious denomination.
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  7. Examples:
    1. “The reformist presented a detailed plan for overhauling the education system in order to promote equal access to quality education for all students.”
reformer
  1. One who reforms, or who works for reform.
  2. (historical) One who was involved in the Reformation.
  3. (chemical engineering) A device which converts hydrocarbons into a hydrogen-rich mixture of gases.
  4. (chemical engineering) A device used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas, typically having low octane ratings, into high-octane liquid products called reformates.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “Prospero is an inherently unstable combination of Puritan reformer and absolutist ruler of the island.”
      “People still recall that it marks the passing on to the next world of Tsong-Kha-Pa, the great religious reformer.”
      “Whiting is a reformer who wants to redistribute income from the rich to the poor by engaging government tax power.”
reforming
  1. reformation
  2. (chemistry) A catalytic process, whereby short-chain molecules are combined to make larger ones; used in the petrochemical industry.
reformation
  1. An 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.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The advocates of a complete reformation of the country's currency system have in their favor the potent fact that almost everyone is in agreement that the existing system is unsatisfactory.”
      “Though the process of the reformation of science will be extended and complicated, nevertheless the ultimate upshot might be revolutionary.”
      “These facts and arguments, I submit, establish the necessity of a new reformation of religion.”
reform
reformability
  1. The quality of being reformable; potential for reform.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The welfare state seemed to confirm the reformability of capitalism and the viability of a third way between capitalism and socialism.”
      “A vote for any bourgeois candidate is a vote of confidence in the reformability of capitalism and a vote against the need for socialist revolution.”
      “La's belief in the reformability of the most abject criminal and her opposition to the death penalty express a full-bodied liberal humanism that the republican state, whatever its expressed ideals, cannot tolerate.”
reformee
  1. One who is the subject of a reform.
reformism
  1. Any of several movements that promote reform
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Centrism developed in the 1930s as a decisive obstacle preventing workers from breaking with reformism and Stalinism.”
      “Marx himself was reinterpreted by German social democracy and transformed into an advocate of reformism.”
      “As its name suggests, it stood on a platform which advanced the party as the continuator of old-style Labour reformism.”
reformeress
reformations
  1. plural of reformation
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Exists on the new blanks and reformations as well as old billon coins of various kings.”
      “I need not tell you that to me reformations in morals are as meaningless and vulgar as Reformations in theology.”
      “Today, two Grammy nominations, countless tribute bands and several reformations later, the group abides, although the egos are still there.”
reformeresses
  1. plural of reformeress
reformings
  1. plural of reforming
reformists
reformisms
reformees
  1. plural of reformee
reformers
  1. plural of reformer
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Throughout American history, reformers and radicals have addressed social problems through civil disobedience and non-violent resistance.”
      “In 1990 Kyrgyz reformers picked a physicist essentially out of obscurity to run their country.”
      “Many times, he told me, reformers rejected a compromise as a bridge too far.”
reforms
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