reformer Definition
re·former (ri fôr′mər)
noun
- a person who seeks to bring about reform, esp. political or social reform
- any of the leaders of the Reformation
reformer Usage Examples
Preposition: of
century: The Make Poverty History Campaign - the global equivalent of social reformers of the 19th century.
Converse of object
- believe: Like medieval monks in their flowing skirts, the dress reformers believed that freer clothes would free the mind.
- become: Clugny became the reformer, not only of the order of St. Benedict, but of monastic life in general.
- help: I believe we owe it to our children and grandchildren to stay engaged and to help spread liberty, and to help reformers.
- include: Moreover, they have high electrical efficiency and they can use any fuel, as long as they include fuel reformers.
- do: Nor, of course, did the reformers always want them if they were likely to block change.
Preposition: in
- region: Therefore, Western governments should listen more to what reformers in the region advise.
- century: Who were the social reformers in the 19th century?
Adjective modifier
- penal: The at times lazy assertion by penal reformers that they do has done little to enhance the cause of prison reform.
- Protestant: Among them was the Protestant reformer George Wishart, who was later burned at the stake.
- protestant: Prayers for the dead were declared illegal by the protestant reformers in the late 1530s.
- zealous: Henry was a forceful and energetic character, a fervent and zealous reformer in the mold of Bernard.
- would-be: School should develop a child's capacities, not fill him with facts This is the cry of every would-be reformer.
- ardent: Feb. 5, 1891 - Rhodes joins his group from Oxford with a similar group from Cambridge headed by ardent social reformer William Stead.
Noun used with modifier
- temperance: He was always ready to co-operate with all classes of temperance reformers.
- tort: Quotes on several or hospital the quiz is tort reformers still.
- prison: In 1783, the prison reformer John Howard visited Chester.
- factory: The factory reformers tended to be Tory protectionists who wanted to protect the Corn Laws.
- century: Raymond Johnston believed that the 16th century Reformers needed to be rediscovered.
- church: The church reformers believed that the Church of Rome, despite the corruption of later centuries, was still the true church.
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