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English
Etymology
From un- + reformed.
Adjective
unreformed (comparative more unreformed, superlative most unreformed)
- Not reformed.
1550, Newcastle and Gateshead:Also it is ordered that if any hireman or apprentice . . . not lowly and gentle to his said master, and to the officers going about for to search, and doing their duty to the said searchers and officers, the said master to present all such defaults unto the searchers and stewards, that they inform the twelve sworn men of all such faults as is found ; and also if the said hireman or prentice do not their duty in working of his work as he ought for to do, and their master letting it over past and unreformed until the said occupation, shall make it be reformed and remedied for the honesty of the said company; […]
1911, Stephen Leacock, “The Man in Asbestos: an Allegory of the Future”, in Nonsense Novels, Canadian edition, Montreal, Que.: Publishers’ Press, Limited, page 229:“Asbestos, do you think that those jelly-bag Equalities out on the street there, with their ash-barrel suits, can be compared for one moment with our unredeemed, unreformed, heaven-created, hobble-skirted women of the twentieth century?”
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