reform
noun
the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc..
self-reform
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a word derived from
reform.
Example Sentences
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The motion comes after five former FA executives said the governing body had failed to "self-reform".
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2017
Rather, it would seem to indicate a government utterly incapable of meaningful self-reflection or self-reform.
From US News ● Jun. 4, 2014
And for Ralph Reed, sudden self-reform has always come easily.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last January George Marshall's parting advice, after 13 months in China, had called for major Chinese self-reform before any further U.S. assistance to the Chinese Government.
From Time Magazine Archive
She presses self-reform upon souls, who to the eye of outward observers and perhaps in their own conceit, have little or nothing to amend.
From Ortus Christi Meditations for Advent by Mother St. Paul
