Unreformed

ppl. a. [UN-¹ 8, 5 b.]

  1.  Of faults, etc.: Not amended or made good.

1528.  Cromwell, in Merriman, Life & Lett. (1902), I. 318. I trust that no defaulte … is lefte vnrefourmed.

1542.  Hen. VIII., Declar., A iv b. The kyng of Scottis dedes … could not … be passed ouer vnreformed.

1653.  Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, I. xii. 161. Every vicious habit, or unreformed sin.

1679.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc., viii. 145. Upon penalty … for every default Ten Shillings, and Ten Shillings every week it continues unreformed.

1694.  S. Bethal, Providences of God, 94. There being no such Traitors to the Strength of a Land … as are unreformed Provocations.

  2.  Not reformed or made better; unimproved: a. Of persons, the heart, etc.

1583.  Golding, Calvin on Deut. xxvii. 223. If wee … in the meane while leaue our heartes vnreformed.

1644.  Hammond, Of Conscience, 44. Never to lye downe … unhumbled unreformed in any such sinne.

1671.  Milton, P. R., III. 429. Who freed,… Unhumbl’d, unrepentant, unreform’d, Headlong would follow.

1717.  De Foe, Mem. Ch. Scot., II. 27. The Church formally absolv’d him, and yet secretly believed him to be unreformed.

a. 1852.  Moore (title), Musings of an Unreformed Peer.

1872.  Geo. Eliot, Middlem., lxi. The unreformed provincial mind distrusted London.

  b.  Of practices, institutions, etc.

1614.  Act 12 Jas. I., in Bolton, Stat. Irel. (1621), 425. Your gracious disposition … towards the settling of this unreformed kingdom.

1792.  Burke, Lett. to Dundas, Wks. 1812, V. 199. It is better to allow the evil, in order to correct it, than … to leave it under an illegal, and therefore an unreformed existence.

1840.  Arnold, in Life (1844), II. 189. If a system goes on long unreformed, it is not then reformed, but destroyed.

1849.  Mill, Diss. & Disc. (1859), II. 352. The majority of even the unreformed House of Commons.

1898.  Westm. Gaz., 1 March, 2/1. Then I would rather that the Church should remain unreformed.

  3.  Not affected by the Reformation.

1788.  Burke, Sp. agst. W. Hastings, Wks. XIV. 20. [You] have seen in the unreformed countries of Europe churches filled with persons, who take sanctuary in them.

1892.  J. B. Mayor, Ep. James, Author, pp. xvii.–xviii. The predominant theory in the churches of Western Christendom, reformed and unreformed.

  Hence Unreformedness.

1607.  Hieron, Wks., I. 248. Denouncing the heauy vengeance of God vpon vnreformednesse.

1655.  S. Ashe, Funeral Serm. Gataker, 13. During the time of his impenitency and unreformednesse.

1677.  I. Mather, Preval. Prayer (1864), 244. That which aggravateth our Unreformedness, is, that in the Time of our Trouble [etc.].

1888.  Contemp. Rev., Sept., 345. One who, in that day of its unreformedness, did not regard the constitution of the Royal Academy as absolutely perfect.