What does "reformatory" mean?
Reformatory: Tending to produce reformation; reformative.
Additional senses
- 2.An institution for promoting the reformation of offenders. Magistrates may send juvenile offenders to reformatories instead of to prisons. Eng. Cyc.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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