Meanings of thorough reformation in English

The devout young king threw himself into a thorough reformation of the prevailing religion.

Nor doubt they of a thorough reformation in his morals, from your example and influence over him.

Unpleasant guests the monks must have found them, unless a thorough reformation had taken place in their characters.

But where is this thorough reformation.

The prophets of the seventh century group around Jeremiah, the master-spirit in the more thorough reformation carried out under Josiah.

Her affliction was most salutary, and worked a thorough reformation, which, had her life been spared, would have shown itself in her conduct.

For can we hope a thorough reformation, according to the mind of Christ, if opposers of reformation may escape scot-free, undiscovered and unpunished?

He goes into the work under the influence of the Holy Spirit; maintaining that the grace of God alone can work a thorough reformation.

The Puritan fight against the hierarchy was a political necessity of the time, something without which no real and thorough reformation could then be effected.