reformist

English

Etymology

From reform +‎ -ist. Originated around the end of the 16th century.

Adjective

reformist (comparative more reformist, superlative most reformist)

1. (politics) Advocating reform of an institution or body.
   • 1913, Émile Faguet, translated by Sir Home Gordon, Initiation into Literature:

     [...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.

2. Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.

Antonyms

• (advocating small changes) revolutionary

Derived terms

• antireformist
• nonreformist

Translations

advocating reform of an institution or body

• Catalan: reformista
• French: réformiste (fr)
• Galician: reformista
• German: reformistisch, Reform-
• Italian: riformista (it)
• Polish: reformistyczny
• Portuguese: reformista (pt)
• Spanish: reformista

Noun

reformist (plural reformists)

1. One who advocates reform (of an institution).
2. Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
3. (dated, 17th C.) An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
4. (dated, 18th century) An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from ca 1790 to 1830.)
5. (religion) A member of a reformed religious denomination.

Derived terms

• antireformist
• nonreformist
• spelling reformist

Translations

one who advocates reform (of an institution)

• Arabic: إِصْلَاحِيّ (ʔiṣlāḥiyy)
• Catalan: reformista m or f
• French: réformiste (fr) m or f
• Galician: reformista m or f
• German: Reformist m, Reformistin f
• Indonesian: reformis (id)
• Italian: riformista (it) m or f
• Kazakh: реформашы (reformašı)
• Malay: reformis
• Polish: reformista (pl) m, reformistka (pl) f
• Portuguese: reformista (pt) m or f
• Spanish: reformista m or f
• Swahili: mwanamageuzi (sw)

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:reformist. (entry for reformist in the Oxford English Dictionary, first edition)

References

• James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Reformist”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.
• Hélyot, Dictionnaire des Ordres Religieux, Paris, Migne, 1850

Anagrams

• fire storm, firestorm, restiform

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French réformiste. By surface analysis, reformă +‎ -ist.

Noun

reformist m (plural reformiști)

1. reformist

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	reformist	reformistul	reformiști	reformiștii
genitive-dative	reformist	reformistului	reformiști	reformiștilor
vocative	reformistule		reformiștilor

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From rèfōrma +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /refǒrmist/
• Hyphenation: re‧fo‧rmist

Noun

refòrmist m anim (Cyrillic spelling рефо̀рмист)

1. reformer

Declension

Declension of reformist

	singular	plural
nominative	reformist	reformisti
genitive	reformista	reformista
dative	reformistu	reformistima
accusative	reformista	reformiste
vocative	reformiste	reformisti
locative	reformistu	reformistima
instrumental	reformistom	reformistima

Related terms

• reformistički
• reformistica
• reformistkinja

References

• “reformist”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026