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Counter-Reformation

Counter-Reformation proper noun: the period of Roman Catholic revival that aimed to combat the Reformation; any of various specific strains of anti-Reformation thought and action.

Proper noun

Counter-Reformation (plural Counter-Reformations)

  1. (historical) The period of Roman Catholic revival that aimed to combat the Reformation; any of various specific strains of anti-Reformation thought and action.
    • Ranke [Leopold von Ranke] also popularized the term "Counter-Reformation." He initially used this term in the plural (Gegenreformationen, Counter-Reformations). Roman Catholic historians took umbrage because this implied — and frequently stated — the historical and theological priority of the...2011, Carter Lindberg, “Chapter 1: History, Historiography, and Interpretations of the Reformations”, in The European Reformations, 2nd edition, Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 10
    • The Counter-Reformation was originally the creation of modern historians. The negative view, adopted by nineteenth-century German, and essentially Protestant, scholars, of those developments in Western Christendom which were opposed to the sixteenth-century Reformation, was characterized by the...2017, Anthony D. Wright, The Counter-Reformation: Catholic Europe and the Non-Christian World, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1

Counter-Reformation meaning in Tamil

Counter-Reformation in Tamil

எதிர்ச் சீர் திருத்த இயக்கம்

Examples of Counter-Reformation in a sentence

  • Ranke [Leopold von Ranke] also popularized the term "Counter-Reformation." He initially used this term in the plural (Gegenreformationen, Counter-Reformations).2011, Carter Lindberg, “Chapter 1: History, Historiography, and Interpretations of the Reformations”, in The European Reformations, 2nd...
  • The Counter-Reformation was originally the creation of modern historians.2017, Anthony D. Wright, The Counter-Reformation: Catholic Europe and the Non-Christian World, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1:

Forms of Counter-Reformation

pluralCounter-Reformations
alternative formCounterreformation
alternative formCounter Reformation

Origin of Counter-Reformation

From counter- + Reformation.

Words formed from Counter-Reformation

Questions about Counter-Reformation

What does Counter-Reformation mean?
Counter-Reformation means the period of Roman Catholic revival that aimed to combat the Reformation; any of various specific strains of anti-Reformation thought and action.
What is Counter-Reformation in Tamil?
Counter-Reformation in Tamil is எதிர்ச் சீர் திருத்த இயக்கம். See Counter-Reformation meaning in Tamil.
How do you use Counter-Reformation in a sentence?
Ranke [Leopold von Ranke] also popularized the term "Counter-Reformation." He initially used this term in the plural (Gegenreformationen, Counter-Reformations).
What part of speech is Counter-Reformation?
Counter-Reformation is a proper noun.

Words near Counter-Reformation in the dictionary

  1. counter-Quranic
  2. counter-rallies
  3. counter-rally
  4. counter-rampant
  5. counter-recoil
  6. Counter-Reformation
  7. Counter-Reformations
  8. Counter-Reformer
  9. Counter-Reformers
  10. counter-revisionist
  11. counter-revisionists

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