Crossword-Solution: REFORMED 8 letters, 12 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

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Word Word Type Definition
Reformed a. Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence;
said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches
originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of
those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation,
etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point.
The Protestant churches founded by them in Switzerland, France,
Holland, and part of Germany, were called the Reformed churches.
Reformed a. Amended in character and life; as, a reformed gambler or
drunkard.
Reformed a. Retained in service on half or full pay after the
disbandment of the company or troop; -- said of an officer.

We have 12 clues for the answer “REFORMED”

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Improved in character. 1 answer
Improved or corrected. 1 answer
On the straight and narrow now 1 answer
Turned over a new leaf 1 answer
Went straight 1 answer
of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation 1 answer
Changed for the better 3 answers
Cleaned up 11 answers
changed 23 answers
repentant 29 answers
apologetic 37 answers
regenerate 57 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with REFORMED (5)

The new heir, up to the period of his accession, was reckoned rather a dissipated youth, but had at once reformed, and made himself an exceedingly respectable member of society.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993
But I was not afraid of him now; so, instead of going, I tarried, and criticized his grammar; I reformed his ferocious speeches for him, and put them into good English, calling his attention to the advantage of pure English over the bastard dialect of the Pennsylvanian collieries whence he was extracted.
Life On The Mississippi, Complete Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 2006
Wherof full many a gret debat Reformed is to good astat, And pes sustiened up alofte With esy wordes and with softe, 1540 Wher strengthe scholde lete it falle.
Confessio Amantis John Gower 1995
Thus Purcell was said to have written, among other things, an opera called _Ebdon and Eneas_; one stated that he was born 1543 and died 1595, probably confusing him with Tallis, that he wrote masses and reformed the church music; another that he was the organist of King's College Chapel, and wrote madrigals.
Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1995
Condy had told young Sargeant that he had "reformed" in the matter of gambling, and intended to swear off for a few months.
Blix Frank Norris 2008

Quotes with REFORMED (3)

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought. A theory however elegant and economical must be rejected or revised if it is untrue; likewise laws and institutions no matter how efficient and well-arranged must be reformed or abolished if they are unjust. Each person possesses an inviolability founded on justice that even the welfare of society as a whole cannot override. For this reason justice denies that the loss of freedom for some i…
John Rawls A Theory of Justice
The fact is that given the challenges we face, education doesn't need to be reformed -- it needs to be transformed. The key to this transformation is not to standardize education, but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions.
Ken Robinson The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything
What is evil neither can nor should be loved; for it is not one’s duty to be a lover of evil or to become like what is bad; and we have said that like is dear to like. Must the friendship, then, be forthwith broken off? Or is this not so in all cases, but only when one’s friends are incurable in their wickedness? If they are capable of being reformed one should rather come to the assistance of their character or their property, inasmuch as this is better and more characterist…
Aristotle The Nicomachean Ethics
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