Definition of Reformetion
Reformation, the great event in the history of Europe in the 16th
century, characterised as a revolt of light against darkness, on the
acceptance or the rejection of which has since depended the destiny for
good or evil of the several States composing it, the challenge to each of
them being the crucial one, whether they deserved and were fated to
continue or perish, and the crucial character of which is visible to-day
in the actual conditions of the nations as they said "nay" to it or
"yea," the challenge to each at bottom being, is there any truth in you
or is there none? Austria, according to Carlyle, henceforth "preferring
steady darkness to uncertain new light"; Spain, "people stumbling in
steep places in the darkness of midnight"; Italy, "shrugging its
shoulders and preferring going into Dilettantism and the Fine Arts"; and
France, "with accounts run up on compound interest," had to answer the
"writ of summons" with an all too indiscriminate "Protestantism" of its
own.
- Wikipedia
Ref`or*ma"tion (r?f`?r*m?"sh?n), n. [F.
réformation, L. reformatio.] 1.
The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from
worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of
anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners;
reformation of the age; reformation of abuses.
Satire lashes vice into
reformation. Dryden.
2. Specifically (Eccl. Hist.), the
important religious movement commenced by Luther early in the
sixteenth century, which resulted in the formation of the various
Protestant churches.
Syn. -- Reform; amendment; correction; rectification. --
Reformation, Reform. Reformation is a more
thorough and comprehensive change than reform. It is applied to
subjects that are more important, and results in changes which are
more lasting. A reformation involves, and is followed by, many
particular reforms. "The pagan converts mention this great
reformation of those who had been the greatest sinners, with
that sudden and surprising change which the Christian religion made in
the lives of the most profligate." Addison. "A variety of
schemes, founded in visionary and impracticable ideas of
reform, were suddenly produced." Pitt.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- An 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
- 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
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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