15 definitions found for reformation

Reformation REF'ORMATION, n.
1. The act of reforming; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of any thing vicious or corrupt; as the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.
Satire lashes vice into reformation.
2. By way of eminence, the change of religion from the corruptions of popery to its primitive purity, begun by Luther, A.D. 1517.

reformation n 1: improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs 2: a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches [syn: Reformation, Protestant Reformation] 3: rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course; "the reclamation of delinquent children" [syn: reclamation, reformation]

reformation - kaygifu

reformation noun Date: 15th century 1. the act of reforming ; the state of being reformed 2. capitalized a 16th century religious movement marked ultimately by rejection or modification of some Roman Catholic doctrine and practice and establishment of the Protestant churches • reformational adjective

re-formation
n. the process or an instance of forming or being formed again.

reformation
n. the act of reforming or process of being reformed, esp. a radical change for the better in political or religious or social affairs.
Phrases and idioms:
the Reformation hist. a 16th-c. movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
Derivatives:
Reformational adj.
Etymology: ME f. OF reformation or L reformatio (as REFORM)

reformation 1. The reformation of something is the act or process of changing and improving it. He devoted his energies to the reformation of science. N-UNCOUNT 2. The Reformation is the movement to reform the Catholic Church in the sixteenth century, which led to the Protestant church being set up. ...a famous statue of the Virgin which was destroyed during the Reformation. N-PROPER: the N

reformation ˌrefəˈmeɪʃən n. the act of reforming or process of being reformed, esp. a radical change for the better in political or religious or social affairs. øthe Reformation hist. a 16th-c. movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches. øøReformational adj. [ME f. OF reformation or L reformatio (as REFORM)]

Reformation the great event in the history of Europe in the 16th century, characterised as a revolt of light against darkness, on the acceptance or the rejection of which has since depended the destiny for good or evil of the several States composing it, the challenge to each of them being the crucial one, whether they deserved and were fated to continue or perish, and the crucial character of which is visible to-day in the actual conditions of the nations as they said "nay" to it or "yea," the challenge to each at bottom being, is there any truth in you or is there none? Austria, according to Carlyle, henceforth "preferring steady darkness to uncertain new light"; Spain, "people stumbling in steep places in the darkness of midnight"; Italy, "shrugging its shoulders and preferring going into Dilettantism and the Fine Arts"; and France, "with accounts run up on compound interest," had to answer the "writ of summons" with an all too indiscriminate "Protestantism" of its own.

Reformation 'Tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new Reformation. DRYDEN: Sophonisba, Prologue.

Reformation Ref`or*ma"tion (r?f`?r*m?"sh?n), n. [F. r['e]formation, L. reformatio.] 1. The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses. Satire lashes vice into reformation. --Dryden.

Re-formation Re`-for*ma"tion (r?`f?r*m?"sh?n), n. The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.

REFORMATION ref-or-ma'-shun: The word is found only in Heb 9:10, being the translation of diorthosis, in its only occurrence. This Greek word means etymologically "making straight," and was used of restoring to the normally straight condition that which is crooked or bent. In this passage it means the rectification of conditions, setting things to rights, and is a description of the Messianic time.

reformation n. Reform, amendment, correction, rectification, act of reforming.

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