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reformatory
adjective
- serving or designed to reform: reformatory punishments.
reformatory lectures;
reformatory punishments.
noun
- Also called reform school. (no longer in official use) a penal institution for reforming young offenders, especially minors. juvenile detention center.
reformatory
/ -trɪ; rɪˈfÉ”ËmÉ™tÉ™rɪ /
noun
- Also calledreform school (formerly) a place of instruction where young offenders were sent for corrective training Compare approved school
adjective
- having the purpose or function of reforming
Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of reformatory1
Example Sentences
Archeologists estimate that nearly 100 kids died from violence and neglect over the juvenile reformatory’s century in use.
In the film about two teens in a reformatory school, the camera becomes the point-of-view of a couple of characters, while other characters look directly into the lens.
Those crimes included forcing the Krenak off their land in southeastern Minas Gerais state, where a so-called reformatory site was built.
Her rebellious nature was mainly driven by resentment at the abuse she suffered as a child and her experience in a Dublin reformatory.
He ended up getting sent to a borstal, a reformatory for young offenders.
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