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Meanings of reformative in English

Tending to reform.

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Examples for "reformatory"
1
Give these youthful offenders the benefit of schools, connected with the reformatory.
The Twin Hells / A Thrilling Narrative of Life in the Kansas and...
2
One is letting or selling this house for a reformatory, or school.
The Uninhabited House
3
Bad boys do not come here, but are sent to the reformatory.
The Rover Boys in Camp; or, The Rivals of Pine Island
4
English artists in literature and in painting have done some great reformatory work.
Pictures Every Child Should Know / A Selection of the World's Ar...
5
They decide to send him to a reformatory the next year.
The new yorker
Usage of reformative in English
1
The moral hump is tolerated, even patronised in reformative institutions, but the physical hump, never!
London's Underworld
2
But we hope for little of a reformative tendency from the selfish society of the world.
What Can She Do?
3
In summary, the potentially reformative role of punctuated equilibrium resides in an unusual property among scientific innovations.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
4
Besides our regular religious services, including our large and delightful Sabbath-school, we have various reformative and benevolent societies.
The American Missionary — Volume 42, No. 01, January, 1888
5
Till then she had pinned her faith, like a wise woman, in the reformative influence of a good marriage.
The Hand in the Dark
6
The author of the above fairly represents the attitude of conventional thought,-itsservility to fashion, its antagonism to reformative moves.
The Arena, Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891
7
For example, Kimura's theory of neutralism (1983) ranks as fundamental and reformative for proposing a new domain of causation at high relative frequency.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
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Reformative through the time