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1. (n.) reformation
the act of reforming or the state of being reformed.
2. reformation
(cap.) the 16th-century movement for reforming the Roman Catholic Church, which resulted in the establishment of the Protestant churches.
Etymology: (1375–1425; reformacion < L refōrmātiō <refōrmā(re) to reform)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) reformation
improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs
2. (noun) Reformation, Protestant Reformation
a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches
3. (noun) reclamation, reformation
rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course
"the reclamation of delinquent children"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) reformation
the act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses
2. (noun) reformation
specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various Protestant churches
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. reformation
the great event in the history of Europe in the 16th century, characterised as a revolt of light against darkness, on the acceptance or the rejection of which has since depended the destiny for good or evil of the several States composing it, the challenge to each of them being the crucial one, whether they deserved and were fated to continue or perish, and the crucial character of which is visible to-day in the actual conditions of the nations as they said "nay" to it or "yea," the challenge to each at bottom being, is there any truth in you or is there none? Austria, according to Carlyle, henceforth "preferring steady darkness to uncertain new light"; Spain, "people stumbling in steep places in the darkness of midnight"; Italy, "shrugging its shoulders and preferring going into Dilettantism and the Fine Arts"; and France, "with accounts run up on compound interest," had to answer the "writ of summons" with an all too indiscriminate "Protestantism" of its own.
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