Definition of Self-reformation

1. Noun. The act of improving yourself.

Exact synonyms: Self-improvement
Specialized synonyms: Auto-suggestion, Autosuggestion, Self-suggestion, Reform
Generic synonyms: Improvement

Lexicographical Neighbors of Self-reformation

self-propelled
self-propelled vehicle
self-propelling
self-protection
self-publishing
self-punishment
self-raising
self-raising flour
self-realisation
self-realization
self-redress
self-reference
self-referent
self-referential
self-referential meaning
self-reformation (current term)
self-regard
self-regarding
self-regenerating
self-registering thermometer
self-regulating
self-regulation
self-regulatory
self-reliance
self-reliant
self-renunciation
self-repelling
self-replicating
self-report inventory
self-report personality inventory

Literary usage of Self-reformation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Character by Brander Matthews (1906)
"... the atmosphere of the sick-room, and then when its courage and resources are at a low ebb, expecting it to perform some mighty feat of self-reformation. ..."

2. Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God by Horace Bushnell (1880)
"SO REMEDY IN DEVELOPMENT OR self-reformation. WE are now at the point of catastrophe in God's plan, where it is next in order to look about for some ..."

3. Nature and the Supernarural, as Together Constituting the One System of God by Horace Bushnell (1861)
"KO REMEDY IN DEVELOPMENT, OR self-reformation. WE are now at the point of catastrophe in God's plan, where it is next in order to look about for some ..."

4. A History of the Church, from the Earliest Ages to the Reformation by George Waddington (1833)
"Attempts of the Church at Self-Reformation. General clamour for Reformation—with different objects—first appearance of a Reform party In the Church—exposure ..."

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