reformist

comparative more reformist · superlative most reformist

1. governmentAdvocating reform of an institution or body.

   [...] all the prose is German, all reformist, all moralising, and has little or practically no echo of antiquity.

   1913, Émile Faguet, translated by Sir Home Gordon, Initiation into Literature

2. Specifically, advocating reform and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.

plural reformists

1. One who advocates reform (of an institution).
2. Specifically, one who advocates reform of society and the gradual accumulation of small changes, as opposed to revolutionary action.
3. datedAn advocate of reform in the Church of England; a Reformer.
4. datedobsoleteAn advocate or supporter of political reform in the United Kingdom. (Common from ca 1790 to 1830.)
5. lifestyleA member of a reformed religious denomination.