Crossword clues for reformation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reformation \Ref`or*ma"tion\ (r?f`?r*m?"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]formation, L. reformatio.]
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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.
Satire lashes vice into reformation.
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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.
Syn: Reform; amendment; correction; rectification.
Usage: Reformation, Reform. Reformation is a more thorough and comprehensive change than reform. It is applied to subjects that are more important, and results in changes which are more lasting. A reformation involves, and is followed by, many particular reforms. ``The pagan converts mention this great reformation of those who had been the greatest sinners, with that sudden and surprising change which the Christian religion made in the lives of the most profligate.''
--Addison. ``A variety of schemes, founded in visionary and impracticable ideas of reform, were suddenly produced.''
--Pitt.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"improvement, alteration for the better," late 14c., "restoration;" mid-15c., "improvement," from Old French reformacion and directly from Latin reformationem (nominative reformatio), noun of action from past participle stem of reformare (see reform (v.)). In reference to the European religious movement, it is attested by 1540s, borrowed from Luther. The movement began as a bid to reform doctrines and practices of the Church of Rome.
Wiktionary
n. 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.
WordNet
n. 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
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 [syn: Protestant Reformation]
rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course; "the reclamation of delinquent children" [syn: reclamation]
Wikipedia
Reformation may refer to:
"Reformation" is the tenth episode of the third season of the HBO original series, The Wire. The episode was written by Ed Burns from a story by David Simon & Ed Burns and was directed by Christine Moore. It originally aired on November 28, 2004.
Reformation is the second full-length studio album from Kiuas, released on May 24, 2006 by Spinefarm Records. On the some releases it features a cover titled; "Hunting Girl" by the progressive rock band, Jethro Tull.
Reformation is a compilation album by Spandau Ballet. It was released in 2002 by Chrysalis Records and Reformation Records.
Reformation is a peer-reviewed annual academic journal sponsored by the Tyndale Society, publishing "original research in scholarship of the Reformation era". It is published by Taylor & Francis.
Reformation is a 2015 melodramatic neo-noir short film. The film was directed by Hoyon Jung, and stars Ty Trumbo, Ida Nilsen, Kevin Keller and VaLynn Rain.
It held its world premiere on 11 April 2015 at the Tiburon International Film Festival. It has been accepted in various film festivals, including Wizard World Comic Con's Con Film Festival: Philadelphia and Sacramento and San Francisco Frozen Film Festival. The film was released online on 01/10/2015.
Usage examples of "reformation".
But if we attentively reflect how much swifter is the progress of corruption than its cure, and if we remember that the years abandoned to public disorders exceeded the months allotted to the martial reign of Aurelian, we must confess that a few short intervals of peace were insufficient for the arduous work of reformation.
The Apostolical churches on the continent did not, as such, participate in the reformation movement.
For reformation is effected in full, that is, in what is inmost and outmost, and what is outmost is reformed suitably to what is inmost only while man is in the world.
In the sixteenth century, in the midst of the Reformation and that violent battle among the forces of modernity, the patrimonial monarchy was still presented as the guarantee of peace and social life.
But Egypt and Babylonia both had their own corresponding phenomena to our Crusades, Gothic religion, Holy Roman Empire, Papacy, Feudalism, Scholasticism, Reformation, Absolute State, Enlightenment, Democracy, Materialism, Class War, Nationalism, and annihilation wars.
You see, the first maxim of the Captain was the reformation of the criminal, while almost every other person connected with the System, from Lord John Russell to the meanest scourger on the Island or at Port Arthur, thought the criminal was a mere thing to be locked up, and fettered, and flogged into purity of life and integrity of conduct.
Say that to-night as you look around on the grievous famine of the suppletory arts and stratagems of repentance and reformation in your heathenish bedroom.
Discourse and humble Advise for our Gratious Queene Elizabeth, her most Excellent Majestie to peruse and consider, as concerning the needful Reformation of the Vulgar Kalender for the civile yeres and daies accompting, or verifyeng, according to the tyme truely spent.
Discourse and humble Advise for our Gratious Queen Elizabeth, her most Excellent Majestie to peruse and consider, as concerning the needful Reformation of the Vulgar Kalendar for the civile yeres and daies accompting, or verifyeng, according to the tyme trewly spent.
The Saxon colonists in this state welcomed the Reformation, formally recognizing the Augsburg Confession in a synod of 1572.
As the wave of nationalism and militarism swept over Europe with the Bismarckian wars, men began to judge the Reformation as everything else by its relation, real or fancied, to racial superiority or power.
Many counties were added to its area, but it was weakened by constant divisions of territory, and during the period of the Reformation some of the princes took one side and some the other.
Bonaventura, April 23, 1257, immediately after his election, to the provincials and custodes upon the reformation of the Order.
Renaissance prepared the Reformation, that Luther had only hatched the Erasmian egg.
It had been an episcopal city, but the bishop had retired to Annecy, and the Genevese Reformation had been at the same time a Genevese Revolution.