Reformation

Quick meaning: Reformation is a noun meaning (law) Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.

Meaning

(law) Change or correction, by a court in equity, to a written instrument to conform to the original intention of the parties.

More Meanings

1. An 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, political or religious affairs or in the conduct of persons or operation of organizations.
2. Alternative form of re-formation.

Example Sentences

[…] olde men long nusled in corruption, scorning them that would seeke reformation […]

[…] satire lashes vice into reformation, and humour represents folly so as to render it ridiculous.

And like bright metal on a sullen ground, My reformation, glittering o'er my fault, Shall show more goodly, and attract more eyes Than that which hath no foil to set it off.

It is good also, not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware, that it be the reformation, that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change, that pretendeth the reformation.

Word Forms

• reformations

Synonyms for reformation

Depending on context, synonyms include reclamation, remaking, refabrication, reassembly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include remaking, reassembly, refabrication, reclamation, amendment, reform.

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