reformer

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REFORM'ER, noun 1. One who effects a reformation or amendment; as a reformer of manners or of abuses. 2. One of those who commenced the reformation of religion from popish corruption; as Luther, Melancthon, Zuinglius and Calvin.
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