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- noun the act of improving yourself
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Examples
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Though lower-class Americans continued to fill taverns, the class of men who led the Revolution were undergoing a radical self-reformation.
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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.
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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.
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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
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I believe that in the economic world, as in the spiritual world, the most needed reformation is self-reformation.
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But so far the results have been like all my other efforts at self-reformation.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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