1833 Niles' Nat. Reg. 28 Dec. 291/1 A re-reform has taken place in one of the western land offices.

1855 P. P. Pratt Key to Sci. of Theol. iii. 18 Protest upon protest! reforms and re-reforms.

1920 Rec. Columbia Hist. Soc. 23 176 The other exaltedly happy condition is a pleasure of the past, not to return without the country re-reforms.

1995 Miami Herald (Nexis) 21 Sept. 20 a It's a good bet that the Senate welfare reform bill..will require a giant re-reform before long.

2008 N.Y. Post (Nexis) 8 May 32 Yesterday she reformed those reforms... She said her re-reforms would give ‘New Yorkers complete faith in the way public dollars are spent’.

1659 T. Fuller Appeal Iniured Innocence i. 58 There may be an Erratum Erratorum, to be re-reformed.

1705 D. Defoe Double Welcome 28 To Re-reform us all from bad to worse.

1713 E. Ward Hist. Grand Rebellion I. 104 To ordain good store of Priests, in hope To re-reform these Nations to the Pope.

1858 H. Bushnell Serm. for New Life 417 Converted, reformed and re-reformed in religion.

1884 Chicago Advance 3 Jan. Born where people were in the midst of re-reforming the Reformation.

1968 S. L. Martin Revol. & Counterrevol. v. xi. 372 Mass-suffrage parties clearly could not exist if they had to re-reform their ranks every election.

1987 B. K. Maclaury in A. J. Reichley Elections Amer. Style Pref. p. vii Since the late 1960s, the electoral system has been extensively and repeatedly reformed and re-reformed.