- reformation - improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs
--1 is a kind of improvement, melioration
--1 has particulars: counterreformationDerived form: verb reform5 - Reformation, 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
--2 is a kind of religious movement
- reclamation, reformation - rescuing from error and returning to a rightful course; "the reclamation of delinquent children"
--3 is a kind of rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving
Derived forms: verb reform2, verb reform6, verb reform1