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reformative

/ri-fawrm/US // rɪˈfɔrm //UK // (rɪˈfɔːm) //

改革性,改革性的,改革的,改革派

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
    • : an instance of this.
    • : the amendment of conduct, belief, etc.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to change to a better state, form, etc.; improve by alteration, substitution, abolition, etc.
    • : to cause to abandon wrong or evil ways of life or conduct.
    • : to put an end to.
    • : Chemistry. to subject to the process of reforming, as in refining petroleum.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to abandon evil conduct or error: The drunkard promised to reform.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of Reform Jews or Reform Judaism: a Reform rabbi.

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Examples

  • Noto said he and his SoFi colleagues “are huge supporters of student loan reform,” despite the fact that the company refinances loans, because “it’s better for the country.”

  • These reforms should translate into fewer gerrymandered seats overall — by either party.

  • Those barriers, he said, include criminal justice and immigration reform.

  • These drawbacks leave room for future reforms even if Complete Communities passes.

  • Another area where lawmakers have a hard time getting things over the finish line is police reform.

  • The idealism of the eighteenth century was not reformative and humanistic, but revolutionary and humanitarian.

  • The moral hump is tolerated, even patronised in reformative institutions, but the physical hump, never!

  • One draws humour, one irony, one a tendency to exaggerate, another deeply to be serious and reformative.

  • Louisiana, therefore, has an elaborate excise, guiltless of any suggestion of reformative objects.

  • Suffering which is of an entirely penal nature, has very little deterrent value and absolutely no reformative value whatever.