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Meanings of reformative in inglês

Tending to reform.

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        Examples for "reformatory"
        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 inglês
        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