Counter-Reformation

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counter- +‎ Reformation

Counter-Reformation

1. (historical) A period of Roman Catholic revival that aimed to combat the Reformation.
   • 2017, Anthony D. Wright, The Counter-Reformation: Catholic Europe and the Non-Christian World, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1:

     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 term ‘anti-Reformation’.

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