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- noun Plural form of
reformation .
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Examples
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His was not that stern enthusiasm which has displayed itself in some so-called reformations, fancying itself God's peculiar choice, and "despising others."
Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) John Henry Newman 1845
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One of the worst deformations (aka "reformations") our economy since the mid-1980s is the fifty to sixty percent rise of unemployment .
Bill Totten's Weblog 2009
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"reformations" in the Low Countries - actual ones, i.e. within the traditional Church, spread by the clergy - that catered to a growing need for a personal spirituality, while not discarding the greater context of handed-down tradition.
The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe 2009
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When it comes to band reformations, it seems impossibly churlish to complain about musicians earning a living by doing their jobs.
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Lately, this has brought some pretty valuable reformations: cult bands like the Sonics, the Monks, the Zombies and now at the Le Beat Bepoké weekender the Flamin' Groovies.
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Most of us within the Elders of Sodom are not easily offended or even discomfited by such symbols, but for all the tolerant strains of Christianity out there and all the profoundly ethical Christians that subscribe to them, the liberalising reformations of Christianity are far from universal.
Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Life had changed when Mikhail Gorbachev came along in the 1980s, and with him glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring)—reformations that utterly transformed the atmosphere.
From Russia With Love and Fear Dorothy Rabinowitz 2011
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Most of us within the Elders of Sodom are not easily offended or even discomfited by such symbols, but for all the tolerant strains of Christianity out there and all the profoundly ethical Christians that subscribe to them, the liberalising reformations of Christianity are far from universal.
An Open Letter to the Usual Suspects Hal Duncan 2010
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His is the mildest of reformations of Bush's last two years in office, and that's about the best you can say for him.
Anis Shivani: Obama the Visionless: Flogging the Four Horsemen of the Bureaucracy 2010
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His is the mildest of reformations of Bush's last two years in office, and that's about the best you can say for him.
Anis Shivani: Obama the Visionless: Flogging the Four Horsemen of the Bureaucracy 2010
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