The word "reformer" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a person who advocates for or implements change, such as in the sentence: "The new mayor is a reformer who wants to make positive changes in the city."
The reformer king failed to initiate a single item of a political reform agenda.
In Germany, it seems, any would-be reformer loses his majority in the Bundesrat and Mr Schröder was no exception.Yet the reforms Mr Schröder got through were a big step in the right direction.
Die Welt said Tsipras may not be the worst choice to lead Greece on to the "right path", adding: "What could make him an unexpected reformer is pure necessity… In contrast to the established parties in the country, he is not seen as a puppet of the foreign leaders - also due to the criticism he directs at Brussels and Berlin.
At 39, he is the London School of Economics educated reformer who promised to introduce democracy to the dictatorship, and to open it up to the outside world.
Dr Dhondo Keshav Karve, an early 20th century social reformer on women's welfare in India emphasized the phrase; "when you educate a woman, you educate a whole family".
One reformer said: "The prime minister couldn't even be bothered to turn up in the chamber.
It is no secret that Zanu-PF is deeply divided between factions led by Joice Mujuru, the vice-president widely seen as a reformer, and Emmerson Mnangagwa, the hardline defence minister dubbed "the crocodile".
But when, after the ensuing mayhem, the man goes weeping to his death, he seems to become a tragic figure, even Christlike; some ludicrously misguided social reformer, perhaps, rather than a mindless tyrant.
But is it possible Gove, a restless reformer unjustly loathed on the left, might become an unlikely liberal hero by pointing out the glaring contradictions for conservatives to be supporting perhaps the most grotesque state failure of them all?
For we also had a monument of self-contradiction - a man of the hard right who could be a sensitive social reformer, a deeply committed Tory who could urge his colleagues to conspire with the enemy, a master of words who could use them with what many saw as gross irresponsibility, a devout loyalist who could lecture his queen, an atheist and a High Anglican.
But could it be as a prison reformer that Gove really leaves his mark, making transformative change to the country by reversing two decades of dismally flawed policies?
