Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: reformed
IPA transcription: [ɹɪf'ɔɹmd]
Pronunciations of reformed
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: Reformed
    Meaning: of or relating to the body of Protestant Christianity arising during the Reformation; used of some Protestant churches especially Calvinist as distinct from Lutheran; "Dutch Reformed theology"
Usage examples
  • "I can't see how such a reformed young noblewoman calmly walked over and stole a life raft.
  • It originated with the housemaid whose brother was a reformed burglar now employed in a grocer's shop.
  • Grant reformed his line, which had been shattered by the last fiery and successful attack of the South.
  • When we were in Washington, the children usually went with their mother to the Episcopal church, while I went to the Dutch Reformed.
  • He told me he had been, at one time, a little wild, but surely he ought not to be condemned for that, after he had repented and reformed."
  • A fresh signal, inaudible, imperceptible to all but themselves, and once more, in a trice, the narrow, smoothly-gliding hunting-column is reformed.
  • But I am not to be controlled as formerly; my temper is changed of late; changed to what it was originally; till your religious precepts reformed it.
  • Cubes which are Moon-cubes, brought to the Earth in the heart of that blue column, here reformed to create an army which is invincible, because it cannot be slain!
  • Charity pays honour to the aged in every respect, coincides with their sentiments, consults them, forestalls their desires, and attempts not to reform in them what cannot be reformed.
  • This young Man, Christ, by the help of a supernatural power, abrogated the ancient Mosaic Law, reformed the general morals, and once again laid the foundation of eternal glory for the Israelites.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Julius Caesar, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Eucharistic theology, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Scouts Canada, License CC BY-SA 4.0