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单词 reformation
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reformation
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˌref.əˈmeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌref.ɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
theactof making animprovement,especiallybychanginga person'sbehaviouror thestructureof something:
He'sundergonesomething of a reformation - he's achangedman.
They arecommittedto theradicalreformation oftheirsociety.
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  • Thegrouphasundergoneseveral reformations.
  • Theywanttoseeproofof hismoralreformation.
  • Thechurchgaveadvicetobringpeopletorepentanceand reformation.
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the Reformation
noun[S]
uk
/ˌref.əˈmeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌref.ɚˈmeɪ.ʃən/
the 16th-centuryreligiousideasandactivityinEuropethat were anattempttochangeandimprovetheCatholicChurch, andresultedin theProtestantChurchesbeingestablished
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(Definition ofreformationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

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Early modern culture was still deeply imbued with warrior values, some of which (including those concerning women) were intensified by engagement with religiousreformation.
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As noted above, the summing over all groups is only meaningful if there is an exchange between groups orreformationof groups.
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An ensemble of bonds is in dynamic equilibrium, so that dynamic breakage andreformationalso occurs during detachment.
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Political and religiousreformationhad different ramifications in different places.
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Such dynamic bond breakage andreformationundoubtedly occurs in biology.
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Firstly, thereformationof the retinotopic map in the optic tectum involves growth processes that are differentially affected by spiking activity in the optic nerve.
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Reformation, in which religion was in some way involved.
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In others, nevertheless, the imposition of humiliation in the market place was adopted as an important strategy forreformationof character.
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For the hopes of professional geological consultants were overtaken by thereformationand revitalization of the gentlemanly amateur tradition.
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In the sixteenth century thereformationhad prospered.
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Reformationpolitics powerfully resurrected the view that the religious identity of a people must be considered a function of their ruler's confessional conviction.
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For much of the 1960s, 1970s and the early 1980s, ' popularreformation' was a central concept of interpretation and research.
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Reformationhistorians should not neglect this essay, whose admittedly rather intractable text is enhanced by the lavish illustrations and handsome presentation.
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Here blasphemy becomes the development andreformationof manners which occurs at the behest of secular authorities and processes of middling sort class formation.
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Further, it essentialized tradition and disregarded historical processes of reinterpretation andreformation.
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