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[ ri-fawr-mer ] / rɪˈfɔr mər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR reformer ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna person devoted to bringing about reform, as in politics or society. (initial capital letter) any of the leaders of the Reformation. Origin of reformerFirst recorded in 1520–30; reform + -er1 OTHER WORDS FROM reformeran·ti·re·form·er, nouncoun·ter·re·form·er, nounDictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for reformerReformers understood that constructive societal evolution was the antidote to socialist revolution. From The Square Deal to The New Deal: The Overlapping Political Identities of TR and FDR|John Avlon|September 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST And even though the establishment has won a series of contests, the ranks of the reformers are slowly swelling. Will Mitch McConnell Face a Senate Coup?|David Freedlander|June 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST For reformers like Senator Gillibrand, though, the problem is deeper that and can only be solved by a fundamental shift in policy. Caught Between Military and Civilian Justice, a Battered Wife Waits and Waits for Help|Jacob Siegel|April 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST As bad as the assaults themselves are, they are only part of the problem targeted by reformers. Spies, Lies, and Rape in the Air Force: An Undercover Agent's Story|Jacob Siegel|March 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Those people are virtually by definition liberals and reformers and radicals. Conservatives on the Wrong Side of History on Mandela, Most Other Things|Michael Tomasky|December 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST He belonged to that large and pestiferous tribe of reformers, who go through the world without fixed principles. Gabriel Tolliver|Joel Chandler Harris He has joined himself with a band of starved teachers and reformers to cut its very foundations away. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)|Mrs. Sutherland Orr The cross was destroyed by the fanatical zeal of the Reformers. The Strand District|Sir Walter Besant We had quite a magnetic circle of reformers, too, in central New York. Eighty Years And More; Reminiscences 1815-1897|Elizabeth Cady Stanton Knox and the other reformers were Scopæ viarum—that is, highway besoms. Anima Poet|Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Words related to reformerrevolutionary, militant, renegade, progressive, fanatic, firebrand, insurgent, extremist, agitator, rebel, subversive, anarchist, leftist, rioter, malcontent, reactionary, radical, demagogue, propagandist, zealot |