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self-reformation

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  • noun the act of improving yourself

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Examples

  • Though lower-class Americans continued to fill taverns, the class of men who led the Revolution were undergoing a radical self-reformation.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • United under a system of Khilafat, Ahmadi Muslims continue to advocate for self-reformation, and Muslim-reformation, as they have successfully for over a century.

    Qasim Rashid: Muslims, Not Islam, Need Reform Qasim Rashid 2011

  • United under a system of Khilafat, Ahmadi Muslims continue to advocate for self-reformation, and Muslim-reformation, as they have successfully for over a century.

    Qasim Rashid: Muslims, Not Islam, Need Reform Qasim Rashid 2011

  • I sincerely hope that there's enough pressure on private insurance companies in the President's speech to force them into self-reformation.

    Gibbs: In speech, Obama will spell out ideas for health-care bill 2009

  • I believe that in the economic world, as in the spiritual world, the most needed reformation is self-reformation.

    A Social Creed 2008

  • But so far the results have been like all my other efforts at self-reformation.

    Tod tod toddlin' blog 2004

  • If we have so much self-reformation to accomplish as to dissipate our attention, it may be wise to decide which changes are most immediately important and to limit our endeavors at first to those.

    Problems of Conduct Durant Drake

  • The efforts he made at self-reformation immediately previous to his admission in 1816 into the family of Dr. Gilman, were unsuccessful; and while the quantity of laudanum to which he had been so long accustomed, was subsequently reduced to a small daily allowance, the opium _habit_ ceased only with his life.

    The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

  • For more than a week he had succeeded in keeping away from the 'Memoirs,' and he cherished hopes of a complete self-reformation; but, in spite of his endeavours, he could not hush the wonder and the strange curiosity that that last case he had written down had excited within him.

    The House of Souls Arthur Machen 1905

  • For more than a week he had succeeded in keeping away from the "Memoirs," and he cherished hopes of a complete self-reformation; but, in spite of his endeavours, he could not hush the wonder and the strange curiosity that the last case he had written down had excited within him.

    The Great God Pan Arthur Machen 1905

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