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Definition of Reformatory

1. Noun. Correctional institution for the detention and discipline and training of young or first offenders.

Definition of Reformatory

1. a. Tending to produce reformation; reformative.

2. n. An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders.

Definition of Reformatory

1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or conducive to reform; reformative. ¹

2. Noun. A prison, especially one for juveniles; a reform school. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reformatory

1. [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reformatory

Literary usage of Reformatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Correction and Prevention by Eugene Smith, Hastings Hornell Hart (1910)
"The methods of discipline employed in the reformatory institution most ... The reformatory and the old order penitentiary yet existing in many states are ..."

2. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1870)
"New State reformatory. This important movement, inaugurated last winter by the Legislature, has already been noticed in the report of the executive ..."

3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"It is indispensable to success in the work of the juvenile reformatory that the ... Formerly the juvenile reformatory was the instrument of first aid, ..."

4. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1904)
"THE HART'S ISLAND reformatory. Of the steps taken in reformatory legislation in New York State during the present year the law in relation to the ..."

5. Annual Report (1897)
"This reformatory was established by chapter 637 of the Laws of 1892, as the " reformatory for Women," and under the provisiona of this act was located at ..."

6. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1871)
"My interest is stronger in the reformatory than in the punitive feature of prison discipline; and that is the topic which, of late years, has most attracted ..."

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