What is the meaning of reformed?

verb

  • Make changes for improvement in order to remove abuse and injustices.
    • usage: "reform a political system"
  • Bring, lead, or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life, conduct, and adopt a right one.
    • usage: "The Church reformed me"; "reform your conduct"
  • Produce by cracking.
    • usage: "reform gas"
  • Break up the molecules of.
    • usage: "reform oil"
  • Improve by alteration or correction of errors or defects and put into a better condition.
    • usage: "reform the health system in this country"
  • Change for the better.
    • usage: "The lazy student promised to reform"; "the habitual cheater finally saw the light"

adjective

  • Of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran.
    • usage: "Dutch Reformed theology"
  • Caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one.
    • usage: "a reformed drunkard"
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