Meanings of reformative in anglès

The moral hump is tolerated, even patronised in reformative institutions, but the physical hump, never!

But we hope for little of a reformative tendency from the selfish society of the world.

In summary, the potentially reformative role of punctuated equilibrium resides in an unusual property among scientific innovations.

Besides our regular religious services, including our large and delightful Sabbath-school, we have various reformative and benevolent societies.

Till then she had pinned her faith, like a wise woman, in the reformative influence of a good marriage.

The author of the above fairly represents the attitude of conventional thought,-itsservility to fashion, its antagonism to reformative moves.

For example, Kimura's theory of neutralism (1983) ranks as fundamental and reformative for proposing a new domain of causation at high relative frequency.