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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reformist
adjective
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▪ Against this background, the muzzling of 16 reformist newspapers can only be seen as an assault on popular sovereignty.
▪ But the deeper imprint of the central authority, and the harsher side to its reformist zeal, left scars.
▪ Deng, who had been urging Kim for years to follow his reformist example, encouraged him anew.
▪ Father Georgi Kochetkov is a reformist priest who, after being excommunicated in 1997, has been received back into the church.
▪ Hardliners in the judiciary then began to jail reformist journalists.
▪ Intellectuals, persecuted horribly under Mao, came back as advisers to the reformist rulers.
▪ The amicable resolution suggested the reformist president and hard-line parliament may be trying to break their cycle of confrontation and deadlock.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reformist

Reformist \Re*form"ist\, n. [Cf. F. r['e]formiste.] A reformer.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reformist

1580s, originally religious; from reform + -ist. Political sense is from 1640s. Related: Reformism.

Wiktionary
reformist

a. 1 Advocating reform of an institution or body. 2 Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action. n. 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 (context dated 17th C. English) An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer. 4 (context dated 18th century English) An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from circa 1790 to 1830.) 5 A member of a reformed religious denomination.

WordNet
reformist

  1. adj. favoring or promoting reform (often by government action) [syn: progressive, reform-minded]

  2. n. a disputant who advocates reform [syn: reformer, crusader, meliorist]

Usage examples of "reformist".

One could rightly say that FDR resolved the contradictions of american progressivism by forging a synthesis of the American imperialist vocation and reformist capitalism, represented by Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

Before a new constitution actually came into effect, an extensive range of reformist policies including land reform, woman suffrage, prolabor legislation, and economic democratization had been put into practice under the existing national charter.

Pyotr Stolypin, the Prime Minister and last reformist hope of Tsarist Russia between 1906 and 1911.

But the danger also existed of bringing into the new International reformist and centrist leaders who were attempting to keep a firm grip on their radicalised rank and file.

Revolutionaries and reformists were suddenly united in their general opposition to the war.

He was a typical centrist, Marxist in words and phrases but reformist in deeds.

Already devastated by a slow economy, no foreign investment, and a general lack of confidence in its reformist government, Russia had finally refrained from any more military forays for several years.

It was reformist, something like the Labor Party in England, the Social Democrats in Germany.