Both Uses of

Reformation
in
Jane Eyre

Reformation may be its cure; and I could reform — I have strength yet for that — if — but where is the use of thinking of it, hampered, burdened, cursed as I am?
p. 159.9

reformation = an attempt to reform or improve existing practices

"Sir," I answered, "a wanderer's repose or a sinner's reformation should never depend on a fellow-creature."
p. 252.8 *

reformation = attempt to reform or improve existing practices

Definitions:

(1) (Reformation as in: the Reformation)
a series of Christian efforts to reform the Catholic Church which led to major protestant denominations separate than the Catholic Church (16th century)
(2) (reformation as in: reformation of the law)
attempt to reform or improve existing practices
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

The phrases Catholic Reformation or Counter-Reformation refer to a movement within the Catholic Church in response to the Protestant Reformation. The movement addressed corruption and abuses within the church while defending Catholicism and combatting Protestantism.