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Meanings of reformatory in inglês
catalão
reformatori Correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders.
espanhol
reformatorio Youth detention center or adult correctional facility popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Synonyms
Examples for "reformative"
Examples for "reformative"
1
The moral hump is tolerated, even patronised in reformative institutions, but the physical hump, never!
2
But we hope for little of a reformative tendency from the selfish society of the world.
3
In summary, the potentially reformative role of punctuated equilibrium resides in an unusual property among scientific innovations.
4
Besides our regular religious services, including our large and delightful Sabbath-school, we have various reformative and benevolent societies.
5
Till then she had pinned her faith, like a wise woman, in the reformative influence of a good marriage.
Usage of reformatory in inglês
1
Give these youthful offenders the benefit of schools, connected with the reformatory.
2
One is letting or selling this house for a reformatory, or school.
3
Bad boys do not come here, but are sent to the reformatory.
4
English artists in literature and in painting have done some great reformatory work.
5
They decide to send him to a reformatory the next year.
6
I don't want you ending up in the women's reformatory, at your age.
7
As she drinks and parties, her parents send her to multiple reformatory schools.
8
What Christ suffered is mainly punitive; what we suffer Is reformatory.
9
Yet think not that the prison is a reformatory institution: far from it.
10
But we need not follow Uncle Nathan in his reformatory lucubrations.
11
It was once used as a school, and later on as a reformatory.
12
Once matron of Framingham reformatory for purpose of studying prison conditions.
13
I thought I should like to give it to-establish a reformatory.
14
He brought his chair to horizontal and addressed himself to his reformatory article.
15
Again he was sent to the reformatory, this time for a longer term.
16
Peddling your papers in a reformatory somewhere, serving a term for criminal assault.
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