Reformation synonyms
rĕf'ər-mā'shən
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The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
Amendment of what is defective, vicious, corrupt, or depraved; reformation; as, reform of elections; reform of government.
The act or an instance of transforming:
Protestants considered as a group.
lutheranism
The Christian denomination based on the beliefs and doctrines developed by Martin Luther and his immediate followers.
The faith, doctrine, system, and practice of the Anglican Church.
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(Christianity) Protestant movement basing its theology almost entirely on Scripture, which is held to be inerrant.
The belief in a single God, not divided into any aspects, particularly when presented as a contrast to Christian trinitarianism.
(Proper) The reform movement in the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th cent., following the Protestant Reformation and in response to it
protestant-movement
A statement of such an alteration or addition.
The end result of such an act.
A thing that has been reconstructed or restored to an earlier state.
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The act of renewing or the state of having been renewed.
The process of rehabilitating something.
(Chem.) A redistribution of atoms or atomic groups within a molecule, forming the molecule of a different substance
An act, or the process, of renovating.
The act of realigning or something realigned
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reawakening
A second or subsequent awakening.
The definition of a repeal is the act of taking something back.
The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. [First attested around the early 16th century.]
A renaissance; a revival:
(Countable) A second or subsequent establishment
revolution (related)
A sudden or momentous change in a situation:
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recovery (related)
The removal of valuable substances from waste material, byproducts, etc.
restoration (related)
Restoration is the act of repairing or renewing something.
The process or industry of obtaining useful materials from waste products
Protestant Reformation
a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches
french-revolution (related)
catholicism (related)
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roman-catholicism (related)
crusades (related)
1530s (related)
puritans (related)
papacy (related)
sixteenth-century (related)
oxford-movement (related)
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reformers (related)
seventeenth-century (related)
1640s (related)
monasticism (related)
nonconformity (related)
(Christian Theol.) The doctrines of John Calvin and his followers, esp. the doctrine that the elect are predestined to salvation
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