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Definitionadj. tending to reform
Last update: August 15, 2015
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6), after receiving the gallium in Rome, Manning began his work as archbishop by devoting himself especially to the religious education of the poor and to the establishment of Catholic industrial and reformatory schools. [Please select]
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When a special Reformatory for Catholic children was proposed, Manning carried through the negotiation with the Government. [Please select]
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Our politics, on the whole, were liberal; our theology inclined to be broad; our ideas on social subjects were reformatory, progressive, experimental. [Please select]
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After an hour's ride we entered the gate of what looked like a big reformatory or hospital. [Please select]
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It is not expected that incarceration will have any reformatory effect. [Please select]
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The Mendicant or "Begging Friars" began a reformatory movement in the Church and accomplished much good. [Please select]
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Send the afflicted ones to a home, as likely as not, and the boys to a reformatory. [Please select]
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When the "Essay on Property" fell into the reformatory camp, some asked: "Who has spoken." [Please select]
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But for him Mosenthal--really a great violinist--would have starved, little Perkins would have been sent to the reformatory, and the waiter to the dogs. [Please select]
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