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What does reformative mean?

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Adjective
  1. That serves to reform or correct
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The keynote of reformative harmony is struck in a prison rgime that ministers meticulously to marketable knowledge and skill.
In this regard, correctional and reformative efforts are being constantly carried out to suit the requirements of the prisoner welfare and rehabilitation programmes.
Any given prophet may be both predictive and missionary, ecstatic as well as reformative.
The idealism of the eighteenth century was not reformative and humanistic, but revolutionary and humanitarian.
Discretionary parole has given way to longer and longer determinate sentences, coupled with an accelerating erosion of reformative prison programs.
Whether nature or nurture, a common point was the change in attitudes regarding the purpose of justice, shifting from retributive to reformative intent.

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