Recatholicization
//ɹiːkəθɒlɪsʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n// noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 [...]."
Example
More examples"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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