reformative 的 4 个定义
- 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.
- 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.
- to abandon evil conduct or error: The drunkard promised to reform.
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Reform Jews or Reform Judaism: a Reform rabbi.
reformative 近义词
corrective
更多reformative例句
- 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.