the Reformation

noun

: the 16th-century religious movement that led to the establishment of the Protestant churches

Examples of the Reformation in a Sentence

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The question of confessional balance, and of how the divisions caused by the Reformation should be managed and accommodated by the imperial constitution, was intertwined with both of these issues. —Michael Axworthy, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2016

Aditya said that Indonesian artists have become more open to talking about the country’s history in their work since the Reformation in 1998, when the authoritarian President Suharto resigned from his role. —Sara Merican, Deadline, 10 Feb. 2025

The printing press led to the Reformation but also a lot of bloody sectarian warfare. —Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 3 Feb. 2025

England’s involvement in the wars of religion following the Reformation, proximity to the continent, and, eventually, management of an overseas empire also made foreign affairs important to the ruling class. —Frank O. Bowman Iii, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2019

After the Reformation came along, Marsh said ideas like that were forbidden as superstitious. —Kaity Kline, NPR, 13 Sep. 2024

Some of the modern world’s foundations may lie in the European Renaissance and the Reformation, but that world did not simply emerge out of whole cloth from Europe. —Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022

White Christians who spoke the same language, lived cheek by jowl, and mostly watched the same movies and TV shows were not supposed to be willing to kill each other because their ancestors had taken different sides in the Reformation. —Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 12 Oct. 2023

Before the Reformation, when journeying on foot was England’s most popular expression of spirituality, monks would come to the Shave Cross Inn to have their heads shorn in a gesture of devotion to Saint Wite. —Catherine Fairweather, Travel + Leisure, 28 Aug. 2023

Rhymes for the Reformation

• abbreviation
• abomination
• acceleration
• accentuation
• accommodation
• accreditation
• acculturation
• accumulation
• acetylation
• adjudication
• administration
• adulteration