Adjective : reformatory lectures; reformatory punishments. From Dictionary.com.
This idea of the United Nations as a reformatory is an illusion. From Wordnik.com. [The Role of Free China in the Free World] Reference
But the reformatory was a horse of a totally different color. From Wordnik.com. [Queed] Reference
But at this so-called reformatory 59 occupations were represented by the inmates. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchism and Other Essays] Reference
And he was sent to the Oklahoma state reformatory, which is within my jurisdiction. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 6, 2005] Reference
How about a sting at your daughter's high school, with a year in some nasty reformatory, which is to say any reformatory, for those caught?. From Wordnik.com. [Wal-Mart Watch] Reference
Kosteckyj said Dziekanski spent time in a "reformatory" when he was 17. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
Our highest idea of punishment is, that it is reformatory. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
But I regard suffering rather as reformatory than punitive. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
The starting point in reformatory legislation must be here. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
This era produced nothing of inspired or reformatory force. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
Queen of Navarre, had become a centre of reformatory activity. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
The girl spent time with an aunt, then in foster care, a reformatory. From Wordnik.com. [Ella Fitzgerald: America's First Lady Of Song] Reference
And if designed as a reformatory process, we question its efficiency. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
Saul are typical cases of God's reformatory processes in the next life. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
"I wonder if they are out of the reformatory yet for setting fire to the barn?". From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
= -- The reformatory system includes three elements that are comparatively new. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
The one is moralistic and reformatory in its aim, the other is aesthetic and contemplative. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
The Assembly, thwarted as it had been by the Council, still pursued its reformatory course. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
But more and more are we rising to the idea that punishment is mainly or wholly reformatory. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
We only claim that it is not of endless duration, and that it is of a reformatory character. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
He has linked his name in honorable association with many humane, kindly, and reformatory laws. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference
I do not enlarge upon the objections to the present system; it is not claimed to be reformatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
How different will be the reformatory zeal of this state of the spirit from that which preceded it. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Character] Reference
Experience with the reformatory method shows that about eighty per cent of the cases turn out well. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
Imprisonment, with its various accompaniments and modifications, is the great reformatory punishment. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
But speaking of the reformatory process, there is one circumstance that may seem to indicate that it may be very long. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
Whether that suffering be inflicted in this life or the life to come, the principle is the same; it is all reformatory. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
"There will be no talk there of new dresses or reformatory schools, I'm sure of that," she said, preparing to go to bed. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873] Reference
The school seems not to have profited by the gift from Congress of 200,000 acres for charitable and reformatory institutions. From Wordnik.com. [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference
Drunkenness among the parents of 38 per cent of the prisoners in a reformatory of this kind is a high and a serious percentage. From Wordnik.com. [A Practical Physiology] Reference
His Arab neighbors, meanwhile, were resignedly coming to accept Saddam, like a neighborhood bully released from the reformatory. From Wordnik.com. [The View From Baghdad] Reference
The people of Ohio feel a profound interest in what are known as the benevolent, reformatory, and penal institutions of the State. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
Renée de France herself, who, from this period forward, appears in the character of an avowed friend of the reformatory movement. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
In the case of all suffering, of whatever degree, we believe that it will be rather of a reformatory, than of a punitive character. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Final Victory] Reference
The Rockpoint lads tried to beg off, but the authorities took the matter in hand, and every one of them was sent to the reformatory. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Oarsmen of Lakeview] Reference
Washington was also admitted by this act, and there was a grant of 200,000 acres for "charitable, penal and reformatory institutions". From Wordnik.com. [The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States] Reference
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