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Reformative

adjective
1.
Tending to reform.  Synonym: reformatory.  "Reformatory punishment"






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"Reformative" Quotes from Famous Books



... reserved for more noxious crimes, such as those of fraudulent directors? This opens up new perspectives and new lines of study. The whole theory of Punishment would also have to be gone into: should it be restrictive, or revengeful, or reformative? (See Aristotle, Bentham, Owen, etc.) Incidentally great tracts of the science of Psychology are involved. And what right have we to interfere with our fellow-creatures at all? This opens up the vast domains of Law and Government, and requires the perusal of Montesquieu, ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill



Words linked to "Reformative" :   reformatory, helpful, reform



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