reformationistn.adj.
/ˌrɛfəˈmeɪʃn̩ɪst/, /ˌrɛfəˈmeɪʃənɪst/, U.S. /ˌrɛfərˈmeɪʃənəst/ A. n.
A supporter or advocate of the religious principles of the Reformation; (also occasionally more generally) a person who supports or advocates reform, a reformer.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > reform > one who > one who favours reform
reformado1787
reformationist1824
new-birthitea1834
new eraist1872
reformist1906
renewalist1966
1801 G. Huddesford Poems 101 Bid Semi-Reformationists Declare wherein Reform consists, And, laymen, cleric, whig, and tory, They tell us, each, a different story.]
1824 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 30 Oct. 307 Jansenists, Calvinists, Reformationists, Deists, [etc.].
1884 Catholic World June 323 The general cause of the ‘Reformationists’ is rather advanced than retarded by indefinite splitting of sects into numbers of other sects.
1906 Macmillan's Mag. June 589 One who is proved incorrigible..may indeed be secluded, but..if the reformationists are right, his seclusion should have no penal character.
1969 Listener 17 July 87/3 ‘To make them better citizens,’ says the Reformationist.
1986 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 73 647 These reformers..stood in a long historical line that included such outside agents of change as Lutheran reformationists indoctrinating sixteenth-century German schoolchildren.
B. adj.
Of or relating to the Reformation or its supporters; (more generally) that supports or advocates reform, reformist.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > reforming
mendinga1542
reformatory1589
reforming?1591
reformative1593
reformalizing1614
reformationary1823
reformationist1948
society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > [adjective]
reforming?1591
reformative1593
verticordious1702
reformatory1791
reformationary1823
reformationist1948
society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Reformation > [adjective]
reformed?1545
reformationary1827
reformational1843
reformationist1948
1948 PMLA 63 199 The Wandering Jew was brought from Italy..to Reformationist Germany.
1982 Ethics 92 409 The romantic view of man as innately perfectible, the reformationist view of man as naturally inclined to evil.
1986 Jrnl. Amer. Hist. 72 971 The Chicago Teachers' Federation (CTF), labeled by Hogan a ‘radical reformationist movement’.
2008 College Lit. 35 176 The Pope's loss of power to nationalist and reformationist forces..helped enable the rise of monarchical empires and various forms of absolutism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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