Recatholicization

//ɹiːkəθɒlɪsʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n// noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 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 [...]."

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"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 [...]."

Etymology

From re- + Catholicization.

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