reformation
noun
the act of changing to a better state or character, way of operating, lifestyle, etc.; the correction of abuses and bad habits or practices.
reformations
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pluralof reformation.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Ironically, “the” Reformation as the sundering of Christian unity was at least in part the product of prosaic reformations already occurring within the Church.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2020
In Germany and Russia, political reformations of the world were attempted.
From Time Magazine Archive
This opportunity ought to have been seized on for effecting those reformations, provoked by the corruptions which the false decretals had produced in the ecclesiastical discipline.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
The annals of all emancipations, revolutions, and reformations are disfigured by this fact.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 by Various
Bossuet296 thinks with reason, that the heresies and schisms of this century might have been prevented, if necessary reformations had not been neglected.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
