self-reformation
- 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
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 Froude, James Anthony
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 Maclaren, Alexander
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 Bonar, Andrew A.
