reformatory

adj
/ɹəˈfɔɹməˌtɔɹi/US/ɹɪˈfɔː(ɹ)mətəɹi/UK

Definitions

  1. Of, pertaining to, or conducive to reform

    Of, pertaining to, or conducive to reform; reformative.

    • Other reformatory schools might not strike that balance between reform and education.
  2. A prison, especially one for juveniles

    A prison, especially one for juveniles; a reform school.

    • It was the nicest-looking property Elwood had ever seen—a real school, a good one, not the forbidding reformatory he’d conjured the last few weeks.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reformatory. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at reformatory. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at reformatory

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA