01 a. Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
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Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
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Webster, 1913
Reformatory
02 n. An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.
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An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.“Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons.” — Eng. Cyc.