1. (n.) One who effects a change\; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.

2. (n.) One of those who commenced the reformation of religion in the sixteenth century, as Luther, Melanchthon, Zwingli, and Calvin.

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