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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reformer \Re*form"er\ (r?*f?rm"?r), noun
1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.
2. (Eccl.Hist.) One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reformer
noun
1: a disputant who advocates reform [syn: {reformist}, {crusader}, {meliorist}]
2: an apparatus that reforms the molecular structure of hydrocarbons to produce richer fuel; "a catalytic reformer"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
27 Moby Thesaurus words for "reformer": Fabian, Tammany man, extremist, machine politician, meliorist, old campaigner, party boss, party chieftain, party leader, pol, political hack, political leader, politician, professional politician, progressionist, progressist, progressive, progressivist, radical, reform politician, reformist, revisionist, revolutionary, utopian, utopist, war-horse, wheelhorse
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