Reformation \Ref`or*ma"tion\ (r?f`?r*m?"sh?n), n. [F.
r['e]formation, L. reformatio.]
1. 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.
Satire lashes vice into reformation. --Dryden.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Re-formation \Re`-for*ma"tion\ (r?`f?r*m?"sh?n), n.
The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the
reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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