REFORMED

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Reformed mean? 

• REFORMED (adjective)
  The adjective REFORMED has 2 senses:

1. of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran

2. caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one

  Familiarity information: REFORMED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REFORMED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran

Context example:

Dutch Reformed theology

Similar:

unorthodox (breaking with convention or tradition)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Caused to abandon an evil manner of living and follow a good one

Context example:

a reformed drunkard

Similar:

regenerate (reformed spiritually or morally)

 Context examples 

She would have been glad to know when these difficulties were to cease, this opposition was to yield,—when Mrs. Ferrars would be reformed, and her son be at liberty to be happy.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You have heard how Pearce saved the Bristol girl from the burning house, how Jackson won the respect and friendship of the best men of his age, and how Gully rose to a seat in the first Reformed Parliament.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is the race heritage, the sadness which has made the race sober-minded, clean-lived and fanatically moral, and which, in this latter connection, has culminated among the English in the Reformed Church and Mrs. Grundy.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Each time a moon broke apart and reformed from the resulting ring, its successor moon would be five times smaller than the last, according to the model, and debris would have rained down on the planet, possibly explaining enigmatic sedimentary deposits found near Mars' equator.

(Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day, NASA)