reformative
- adjective
- /rɪˈfɔːrmətɪv/
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reformativo
- So Hegel goes on and he says this is the negative middle term reformative activity, right?
So Hegel goes on and he says this is the negative middle term reformative activity, right?
- So Hegel goes on and he says this is the negative middle term reformative activity, right?
Examples
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The Gourd Dance reflects a conscious but selective reformative movement in the Indian community at large that seeks to create a synthesis of traditional and modern cultural components, resulting in a more satisfying feeling and demonstration of cultural identity.
Academic text (1990) -
30 Maka Kainoka, a young woman from Wanganui with several previous convictions, was sentenced to two years with reformative detention in Addington prison for charges of breaking and entering and theft.
Academic text (1993) -
That's part of what he calls building reformative education.
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The Act provided that young offenders up to 15 years of age found guilty of offenses punishable with imprisonment were not to be sent to ordinary prisons but to reformative schools.
Academic text (2018) -
When Joseph sets about wandering the English countryside, he travels through an ancient, unenclosed landscape that is presided over by local patriarchs, but the novel contains key reformative moments in which an enclosed national landscape is emergent.
Academic text (2007) -
At one level, this seems entirely implausible, since if there is a head-on conflict between, say, rights and utility, or between a retributivist and a reformative view of punishment, then what there is is a head-on conflict between rights and utility, and it will not vanish by being talked about.
Academic text (1998) -
Settlements provided activities of the sort that nineteenth-century social-welfare pioneer Charles Loring Brace, founder of New York's Children's Aid Society, was fond of calling "formative, not reformative."
Academic text (1992) -
The reformative program aims to help troubled youth develop better decision-making skills.
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After attending the reformative workshops, many participants reported positive changes in their behavior.
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The judge ordered the defendant to enroll in a reformative initiative designed to reduce recidivism.
Synonyms
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6.5
Supporting changes in laws or government to improve society
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5.0
Supporting changes to government and laws
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7.4
That tries to change someone's behavior to make it better
Antonyms
How Reforming
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Reformative comes from the parts re- meaning 'again' and form meaning 'shape', the same root as the everyday word form. So a reformative action is one that 'shapes again' to correct faults and make something better.