Sample Sentences for
Reformation
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Reformation as in:  the Reformation

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Most scholars date the reformation from Luther's 1517 publishing of The Ninety-Five Theses to the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia.
Reformation = 16th century efforts to reform the Catholic Church which led to major protestant denominations
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    Unlike most involved in the Reformation, Luther argued that free will was the central issue.
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    The Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution were some of the major signposts on Western civilization's road to modernity.  (source)
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    "five seconds gained," while Willem read aloud from a history of the Dutch Reformation.  (source)
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    The Reformation opened the door a little wider.  (source)
    The Reformation = 16th century efforts to reform the Catholic Church which led to major protestant denominations
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    MORE (Excited and angry) All right I will-this isn't "Reformation," this is war against the Church!  (source)
    Reformation = 16th century efforts to reform the Catholic Church
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    These, and a thousand other reformations, I firmly counted upon by your encouragement; as indeed they were plainly deducible from the precepts delivered in my book.†  (source)
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    It was central to what we call the Reformation.  (source)
    the Reformation = 16th century efforts to reform the Catholic Church which led to major protestant denominations
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    So here was Phaedrus, fanatically defending an institution, the Church of Reason, that no one, no one certainly in Bozeman, Montana, had any cause to doubt. A pre-Reformation Loyola.  (source)
    Reformation = 16th century efforts to reform the Catholic Church
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    But such reformations are rather to be wished than hoped for: I shall content myself, therefore, with this short hint, and return to my narrative.†  (source)
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    The Dutch Reformed Church, born in the Netherlands during the Reformation, had spread throughout Europe and around the world, and even eventually became the official religion of apartheid South Africa.  (source)
    the Reformation = 16th century efforts to reform the Catholic Church which led to major protestant denominations
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    In brief, soldiers fought for the Spanish Counter-Reformation, for Napoleon, for Garibaldi—and now we have Prussian soldiers.  (source)
    Reformation = a movement within the Catholic Church to address corruption and abuses within the church while defending Catholicism and combatting Protestantism
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    This was the only country that the reformation never reached.  (source)
    the reformation = 16th century efforts to reform the Catholic Church which led to major protestant denominations
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    So that I may attribute all the changes of Religion in the world, to one and the some cause; and that is, unpleasing Priests; and those not onely amongst Catholiques , but even in that Church that hath presumed most of Reformation.  (source)
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reformation as in:  reformation of the law

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Our organization works for reformation of privacy laws.
reformation = improvement of existing practices
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    But if a man reforms, doesn't he deserve to have his reformation credited sooner or later?  (source)
    reformation = reform or improve existing practices
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    The stern look of Mary Magdalene rebuked them; her former line of work and her harsh reformation shamed them.  (source)
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    "Sir," I answered, "a wanderer's repose or a sinner's reformation should never depend on a fellow-creature."  (source)
    reformation = attempt to reform or improve existing practices
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    Hence, although I had now two characters as well as two appearances, one was wholly evil, and the other was still the old Henry Jekyll, that incongruous compound of whose reformation and improvement I had already learned to despair.  (source)
    reformation = reform or improve existing practices
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    But the thing which this fellow had overlooked, my friend, was that he had had a predecessor in the reformation business, called Jesus Christ.  (source)
    the reformation = improvement of existing practices
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    We have gone through a pretense of truce and reformation, straight into deadlock.  (source)
    reformation = reform or improve existing practices
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    Let other nations think of retribution and the letter of the law, we will cling to the spirit and the meaning—the salvation and the reformation of the lost.  (source)
    the reformation = improvement of existing practices
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    He denounced Cal's godlessness, demanded his reformation.  (source)
    reformation = reform or improve existing practices
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    But at the same time just this aim demands the greatest efforts of us; and so, led astray by pride, losing sight of this aim, we occupy ourselves either with the mystery which in our impurity we are unworthy to receive, or seek the reformation of the human race while ourselves setting an example of baseness and profligacy.  (source)
    the reformation = improvement of existing practices
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    As if the ripple at its widest desired to be verified by a reformation of itself, to be drawn in and drawn out through its point of origin.  (source)
    reformation = reform or improve existing practices
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    What was said here just now is true too, that is, that if the jurisdiction of the Church were introduced in practice in its full force, that is, if the whole of the society were changed into the Church, not only the judgment of the Church would have influence on the reformation of the criminal such as it never has now, but possibly also the crimes themselves would be incredibly diminished.  (source)
    the reformation = improvement of existing practices
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    Very well then ....England needs an heir; certain measures, perhaps regrettable, perhaps not— (Pompous) there is much in the Church that needs reformation, Thomas—  (source)
    reformation = reform or improvement in existing practices
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    The reformation of our travell'd gallants, That fill the court with quarrels, talk, and tailors.  (source)
    The reformation = the attempt to reform or improve
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