reformist
Adjective
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Adjective
reformist
- Advocating reform of an institution or body.
- 1913 Émile Faguet, Initiation into Literature translated by Sir Home Gordon
- [...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.
- 1913 Émile Faguet, Initiation into Literature translated by Sir Home Gordon
- Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
- (advocating small changes) revolutionary
- French: réformiste
- German: reformistisch, Reform-
- Italian: riformista
- Portuguese: reformista
- Spanish: reformista
reformist (plural reformists)
- One who advocates reform (of an institution).
- Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
- (dated, 17th C.) An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
- (dated, 18th century) An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from ca 1790 to 1830.)
- A member of a reformed religious denomination.
- French: réformiste
- German: Reformist, Reformistin
- Italian: riformista
- Portuguese: reformista
- Spanish: reformista
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