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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reformer
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
economic
▪ The legislative victory also burnished Putin's credentials as an economic reformer.
▪ On the one side are democrats, economic reformers and secessionists.
▪ But is he an economic reformer?
great
▪ Evidence from the first and second waves of reform does not give great comfort to reformers.
▪ The newly formed society of Jesuits were fanatical witch-hunters but even the great reformers were not far behind.
▪ Teresa of Avila became one of the great reformers of the sixteenth century.
penal
▪ If the primary object of penal reformers is not to abolish prisons it is certainly to secure reductions in prison population.
▪ Maconochie was a pioneer in unrelated disciplines but it was as a penal reformer that he was most influential.
radical
▪ I once spent many months as a student using the papers of Francis Place, the radical reformer of early nineteenth-century Westminster.
▪ The so-called radical reformers wanted to go even further back, to the Apostolic church or to the New Testament itself.
social
▪ These efforts would seem pitifully inadequate to a modern social reformer.
▪ In the absence of alarm, inequality is more easily accepted than social reformers in the past have supposed.
■ NOUN
prison
▪ Internal prison reformers can not divorce themselves from these issues, however sensitive they might be.
▪ But the Home Office and prison reformers say his actions were mischievous and disruptive.
▪ An full inquest will be held later this year, but prison reformers are calling for a full judicial inquiry.
▪ But prison reformers say experience shows Gardiner's claims could well be true.Ken Goodwin reports.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A life-long reformer such as Russell clearly saw himself, not as conceding, but as strengthening aristocratic influence.
▪ Harold Ickes, a veteran reformer, was Secretary of the Interior.
▪ It is tempting to pick the reformers.
▪ On the one side are democrats, economic reformers and secessionists.
▪ The key element, however, is not the ardor of the reformers.
▪ The nominees for Prime Minister included representatives of both reformers and conservatives.
▪ There was no point in being a mere political reformer intent on changing laws and state institutions to make social conditions better.
▪ This is a depressing conclusion for liberal reformers.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reformer

Reformer \Re*form"er\ (r?*f?rm"?r), n.

  1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.

  2. (Eccl.Hist.) One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reformer

1540s, agent noun from reform (v.).

Wiktionary
reformer

n. 1 One who reforms, or who works for reform. 2 (context history English) One who was involved in the Reformation. 3 (context chemical engineering fuel cells English) A device which converts hydrocarbons into a hydrogen-rich mixture of gases. 4 (context chemical engineering petrochemistry English) A device used to convert petroleum refinery naphthas, typically having low octane ratings, into high-octane liquid products called reformates.

WordNet
reformer
  1. n. a disputant who advocates reform [syn: reformist, crusader, meliorist]

  2. an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel; "a catalytic reformer"

Wikipedia
Reformer

Reformer usually means one who reforms, or who works for reform Reformer may refer to:

  • Catalytic reformer, a unit in an oil refinery that reforms lighter hydrocarbons into higher octane molecules and hydrogen
  • Methane reformer a unit for producing hydrogen from methane
  • Steam reformer a unit for converting natural gas into hydrogen and carbon monoxide
  • Plasma reformer, a unit that reforms liquids or gases into syngas
  • Hydrogen reformer, a device that extracts hydrogen from other fuels, typically methanol or gasoline
  • Kim reformer, a device reforming all carbonaceous substance most efficiently to produce syngas, invented by Dr. Kim, Hyun Yong
  • Protestant Reformers, influential people in the Protestant Reformation
  • Reformers Bookshop, an Australian Christian book distributor, with a theology consistent with that of the Protestant Reformers
  • Reformer (Enneagram), a personality type in Enneagram spiritual psychology
  • Pilates reformer, an exercise machine used in the fitness discipline Pilates
  • The Reformers (film), a 1916 film starring Oliver Hardy
  • Reform movement, a type of social movement advocating gradualist change

Usage examples of "reformer".

Laud and his associates, by reviving a few primitive institutions of this nature, corrected the error of the first reformers, and presented to the affrightened and astonished mind some sensible, exterior observances, which might occupy it during its religious exercises, and abate the violence of its disappointed efforts.

The result was a report which amply vindicated the reformers, and suggested remedies which would have gone a long way towards satisfying the Uitlanders.

Somewhat to the left of the Antitrinitarian sects were a few men, who had hardly any followers, who may be called, for want of a better term, Spiritual Reformers.

And what a screech would there not be among the clergy of the Church, even in these reforming days, if any over-bold reformer were to suggest that such an approximation should be attempted?

He had none of the moral strenuousness of the reformer, none of the exclusiveness of a man, whose purposes and ideas were consciously perched higher than those of his neighbors.

Prologue 25 Macdonald, Laurier, and King exploited the democratic limits of the prime ministership, without pretending they were zealous reformers.

Moreover--and here again the democratic prepossessions of the nineteenth century come in--the Socialist movements sought to make every single adherent a reformer and a propagandist of economic methods.

His extreme protectionism repelled not only the Democrats but the tariff reformers who had played an important part in the organization of the Liberal Republican party.

For in proportion as the ceremonies of public worship, its shows and exterior observances, were retrenched by the reformers, the people were inclined to contract a stronger attachment to sermons, whence alone they received any occupation or amusement.

After a fair discussion, we shall rather be surprised by the timidity, than scandalized by the freedom, of our first reformers.

This did not mean subjectivism, or religious autonomy, for the Reformers held passionately to an ideal of objective truth, but it did mean that every soul had the right to make its personal account with God, without mediation of priest or sacrament.

One such body of reformers, the Almoravides, invaded Spain in the eleventh century and carried all before it.

But as long as they subsisted, the Pagans fondly cherished the secret hope, that an auspicious revolution, a second Julian, might again restore the altars of the gods: and the earnestness with which they addressed their unavailing prayers to the throne, increased the zeal of the Christian reformers to extirpate, without mercy, the root of superstition.

Sects and Professions in Religion are numerous and successive - General effect of false Zeal - Deists - Fanatical Idea of Church Reformers - The Church of Rome - Baptists - Swedenborgians - Univerbalists - Jews - Methodists of two Kinds: Calvinistic and Arminian - The Preaching of a Calvinistic Enthusiast - His contempt of Learning - Dislike to sound Morality: why - His Ideas of Conversion - His Success and Pretensions to Humility.

The elders of the city, the uncles of the prophet, affected to despise the presumption of an orphan, the reformer of his country: the pious orations of Mahomet in the Caaba were answered by the clamors of Abu Taleb.