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.
self-reformation
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a word derived from
reformation.
Example Sentences
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The party has embarked on the path of profound self-reformation.
From Time Magazine Archive
In large part, however, the reason he is such a bad student is because he realizes more often and more acutely than most other students—than Hoggart himself—that education requires radical self-reformation.
From "Hunger of Memory" by Richard Rodriguez
The house may be emptied of the evil tenant in some measure by our own resolution and self-reformation.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
I doubt not there is some anxiety, yet I fear it may be only a self-reformation to recommend herself to God and to man.
From The Biography of Robert Murray M'Cheyne by Andrew A. Bonar
But the church was unequal to the work of self-reformation.
From History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude
