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Reformatory

Reformatory meaning

Of, pertaining to, or conducive to reform; reformative.

Example sentences (13)

Their investigation turned when Mr. Staton and Ms. Brawner visited Robbins in the maximum-security Oklahoma State Reformatory in Granite, and he recanted his statement implicating Mr. Dority.

By the time he was nine, he was sent to a reformatory in and was later locked up for swindling and theft.

Didn’t he end up in in a reformatory?

Prisons here are known as 'reformatory centres' established to reform criminals or law breakers to become good citizens.

The court did not even detain Sipido in a reformatory.

The report found that children held in orphanages and reformatory schools were treated no better than slaves—in some cases, sex slaves.

The only name more blah that that is Maine Boys’ Academy, which thankfully doesn’t exist, or Maine Girls’ School, which sounds like a reformatory.

As a result of his reformatory activities, Erasmus found himself at odds with both the great parties.

Conversion The first reformatory writings began the work of winning him over to the evangelical cause.

In Basel, although Zwingli had a close relationship with Oecolampadius, the government did not officially sanction any reformatory changes until 1 April 1529 when the mass was prohibited.

Ruth's nickname there was "Niggerlips", as he had large facial features and was darker than most boys at the all-white reformatory.

The citadel of the reformatory movement was Oxford, where Wycliffe's most active helpers were; these were laid under the ban and summoned to recant, and Nicholas of Hereford went to Rome to appeal.

While still a high school student he was convicted of armed robbery and was sent to a reformatory, where he was held from 1944 to 1947.