recatholicization en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɹiːkəθɒlɪsʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ (UK)
Etymology
From re- + Catholicization.
Meanings
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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
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| recatholicizations | Number=Plur | lexicographic |