REFORMATION


Meaning of REFORMATION in English

n. the act of reforming or process of being reformed, esp. a radical change for the better in political or religious or social affairs. the Reformation hist. a 16th-c. movement for the reform of abuses in the Roman Church ending in the establishment of the Reformed and Protestant Churches. Reformational adj.

[ ME f. OF reformation or L reformatio (as REFORM) ]

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