Reformation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for REFORMATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of reforming
• the action or process of reforming an institution or practice
• a 16th-century movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches.
• 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.
• Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches.
• 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
• 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
• rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act of reforming; the state of being reformed

Words related to REFORMATION

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Words that contain REFORMATION

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How to use REFORMATION in a sentence

• It is dedicated to the reformation of youthful offenders of both sexes, and it is as admirable in the details of its management, as in its object.
• The rumor of the Reformation was heard in their valleys, and created a lively emotion amongst them.
• As the period of the Renaissance was also that of the Reformation it was only natural a determined effort should sooner or later be made to use poetry for religious purposes.
• This term, however, has acquired, since the German Reformation, a meaning other than that of the shrewd Florentine.
• I now tell you that the reformation must be effected, sincerely and thoroughly, before I shall ever give my consent to your union with her.
• Struggle for Throne of the German Empire The Reformation CHAPTER XI.
• Lord Macaulay thinks it a most remarkable fact that no Christian nation has adopted the principles of the Reformation since the end of the sixteenth century.
• It is hard to take in the depth and magnitude of what is called The Great Reformation.
• This would have been a sad blow for the Reformation had there been no one of like mind to take his place.
• An intention of general reformation in this article has been accordingly announced, with augmentation as to foreigners.
• Indeed, I wished to exhibit a sample of reformation in the barbarous style, into which modern statutes have degenerated from their ancient simplicity.
• Add to this, that our treaty will be for a very short term, and if any evil be experienced under it, a reformation will soon be in our power.
• The public faith will be strengthened continually by cases of reformation, usefulness, and virtue.
• Hardly more than a veneer, by the time of the German Reformation almost every vestige of the impress of the Church had vanished never to return.
• It will easily be conceived that, though the balance of evil prevailed in the Romish church, this was not the chief reason which produced the reformation.
• Thus closed the first act of the drama of the Scottish Reformation.
• Plans suggested to the pious and benevolent, for promoting a Reformation among the Gipsies, continued.
• I cannot look on without the deepest concern, when I see the imminent ruin hanging over this church, and, by consequence, over the whole Reformation.
• Such cases you will encounter, and they will most readily respond to your efforts for their reformation.
• Give her something to entertain her and to occupy her mind, give her something to live for and hope for and to be pleased over, besides the mere fact of reformation.
• The Reformation brought them in closer contact with German culture.
• And it is a sorrowful reflection that the great hero of the Reformation fell, in this matter, so far below the Christian ideal.
• The prophets of the seventh century group around Jeremiah, the master-spirit in the more thorough reformation carried out under Josiah.
• But the Reformation had produced a cross-division among the subjects of all the Great Powers.
• Yet I think he hardly means to select, even some of the highest of them, as examples fit for the reformation of a corrupt world.
• A restoration of the right of free election is a preliminary indispensable to every other reformation.
• Those who so serve Satan sin freely, and make no efforts at reformation.

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