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reformative, a.|rɪˈfɔːmətɪv|
[f. as prec. + -ive.]
Inclined to reform; that tends to, or makes for, reform; reformatory.
1593Tell-Troth's N.Y. Gift (1876) 37 Fy, fy, sweet hart,..Will strike so deepely into a reformative conscience, as there shall not neede out vpon thee. 1641Short View Prel. Ch. Eng. 10 Whither their Courts bee reformative or deformative. 1883M. Davitt in Contemp. Rev. Aug. 173 Under conditions that would lessen the evils just referred to, separate confinement might become a reformative kind of punishment.
Hence reˈformatively adv., reˈformativeness.
1824McCulloch Highlands Scot. IV. 161 There is an Organ of Reformativeness. 1874Bushnell Forgiven. & Law ii. 124 A law that undertakes the training of men..reformatively out of ways of self-indulgence. |