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recatholicization

UK/ɹiːkəθɒlɪsʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/

recatholicization noun: the act of making a person or region Catholic again.

Noun

recatholicization (plural recatholicizations)

  1. The act of making a person or region Catholic again.
    • From 1722, a handful of these refugees from Moravia in Bohemia, victims of the inexorable Habsburg recatholicization of central Europe, were given shelter to the north of the Habsburg frontiers by a Lutheran nobleman [...].2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 744

Forms of recatholicization

pluralrecatholicizations

Origin of recatholicization

From re- + Catholicization.

Questions about recatholicization

What does recatholicization mean?
Recatholicization means the act of making a person or region Catholic again.
What part of speech is recatholicization?
Recatholicization is a noun.
How do you pronounce recatholicization?
Recatholicization is pronounced /ɹiːkəθɒlɪsʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ (UK).
What is the plural of recatholicization?
The plural of recatholicization is recatholicizations.

Words near recatholicization in the dictionary

  1. recatheterized
  2. recatheterizes
  3. recatheterizing
  4. recathexes
  5. recathexis
  6. recatholicization
  7. recatholicizations
  8. recatholization
  9. recation
  10. recaught
  11. recaulescence

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