reformist means advocating reform of an institution or body. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 67 out of 100.
adj
- Advocating reform of an institution or body.“[...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.”
- Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
noun
- One who advocates reform (of an institution).
- Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
- An advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
- An advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from ca 1790 to 1830.)
- A member of a reformed religious denomination.