0 trying to improve a system or law by changing it:
a reformist, rather than a revolutionary approach to progress
a reformist politician
He became a priest, but his reformist zeal soon made him enemies.
But it was also involved in an age-old theoretical battle fought by rationalist, reformist and classicist critics.
Its reformist zeal was most evident in the desire to abolish pre-capitalist modes of agricultural production symbolised by feudal intermediaries or zamindars.
This was not only because the reformist leadership was market oriented.
This collective biography is a painstaking and very informative reconstruction of the lives of a number of these reformist intellectuals.
The urban reformist elites enthusiastically invoked reformative programmes, for example, regulating the disorder of urban space and "civilizing" people.
