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Example sentences for "reformative"

Lexicographically close words:
reforestation; reform; reformado; reformation; reformations; reformatories; reformatory; reforme; reformed; reformer
  1. The ordinary prison has proved its uselessness for the treatment of the vagrant and loafer, for not only has it failed as a reformative agency, but its life has no terrors for him.

  2. These institutions were established on a considerable scale, but in course of time their reformative purpose gave place to a penal one.

  3. Institutions established for the reception of such persons, therefore, must be regarded as reformative in character, and not in any formal sense as penal.

  4. The Benninghausen Labour House makes no such wreck of its own reformative work.

  5. Freedom of the press and circulation was given to every reformative writing, to every project of innovation, to the most liberal ideas and to the boldest of systems.

  6. One by one, reformative ideas penetrate to his office of consulting advocate; conversation has sufficed to propagate them, homely common sense needing no philosophy to secure their recognition.

  7. I have frequently heard it urged that these palliative measures tend to retard the great radical reformative movements, which are now taking hold of the public mind.

  8. Much has been written of late about the pessimistic spirit pervading modern reformative literature.

  9. Constance had some very clear ideas on reformative subjects, and one of them was that it was not less culpable to pauperize than to ignore.

  10. It's this: since society as a unit insists upon having this particular kind of reformative work turned over to organizations designed for the purpose, there must be a sufficient reason for it.

  11. In the midst of this came a spasm of the reformative sort, born of a passing glimpse of Stephen Elliott's daughter on one of her charitable expeditions.

  12. But such a view is based on the supposition that satire has no other mission than to lash the vices of our neighbours, without recalling the fact that the satirist has a reformative as well as a punitive duty to discharge.

  13. Every study must be of value from a reformative point of view and also from an educational one.

  14. Suffering which is of an entirely penal nature, has very little deterrent value and absolutely no reformative value whatever.

  15. The number of men who had been in the institution for a considerable period of time and upon whom the ordinary reformative measures exerted little influence rendered the adoption of some other means absolutely necessary.

  16. To utterly disregard these qualities is to ignore the wide-open channels along which the most powerful reformative influences may be transmitted.

  17. It was about the second week that my reformative turn of mind became acute.

  18. Basic reformative cogs can be slipped in a second out of purblind vision not, so to put it, within the focus of comprehension: whereas readjustment resolves into a long, hard pull, up hill all of the way.

  19. The gauge of reformative effort regulated to the degenerate reactions of instinctive social wolves, at the expense of their sore needs!

  20. Those highest up in reformative councils have obligingly lettered reformative measures to his hand.

  21. Bow out of reformative management all who would build cardinally to other than earnest, consecutive endeavor on the part of prisoners for occupational skill with which to meet the exactions of the free-life working day.

  22. To such an end, his sentence must needs be strictly indeterminate, and his parole contingent upon the manner in which he reacts to fundamental reformative processes.

  23. Besides, they have specified for overdrawn activities in essence banal and baldly opposed to actual reformative measures, maimed in the process to the point of practical disuse.

  24. What is more, the harm done may not crop out in overt act of character whatsoever; but it will be most unfortunately expressed in such as listless work entailing lowering averages all along the reformative line.

  25. Because judiciously prescribed and executed exercise in free air goes hand in hand with reformative processes, the criminologist will see to it that all-sufficient of it is accorded prisoners.

  26. The reformative regime that suffers loose and foul-mouthed relations between officers and inmates cannot, by any possibility, express a wholly worthwhile purpose.

  27. It is intended that this semi-technical volume shall help to call the truly reformative turn.

  28. Therefore the psychology of the average intrinsic criminal, in so far as his reactions to intrinsic reformative processes are concerned, has been made to his mind.

  29. If it fails the first time, it very often succeeds after the second or the third, and no one is justified in saying imprisonment is worthless as a reformative agency till it has failed at least three times.

  30. In youth the deterrent effects of punishment are small, and the beneficial effects of reformative measures are at their maximum.

  31. In manhood, on the other hand, this condition of things is reversed, and the deterrent effects of punishment exceed the beneficial effects of reformative influences.

  32. Almost all the agencies in question do both a preventive and a reformative work, though, in the main, the tendency toward preventive work is stronger than that toward rescue work.

  33. Work in this field can rarely be strictly characterized as either preventive, reformative or correctional.

  34. Though not placed strictly under the reformative heading, certain fundamental phases of the work of the Probation Association and the Church Mission of Help may here be presented.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reformative" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    corrective; radical; revisionist; revolutionary