Usually means: Catholic response to Protestant Reformation.
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  1. counterreformation: Merriam-Webster
  2. counterreformation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. counterreformation: Vocabulary.com
  4. Counterreformation: Wiktionary
  5. counterreformation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  7. Counterreformation: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. counterreformation: Rhymezone
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  10. counterreformation: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (Counterreformation)

▸ noun:  Alternative form of Counter-Reformation [(historical) A period of Roman Catholic revival that aimed to combat the Reformation.]

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liquefication, copurification, hyperpolarisation, prostatism, egression, multicentricity, peremptoriness, negligibility, tabooing, antigravitational, more...

Opposite:
reformation, protestantism

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Similar:
liquefication, copurification, hyperpolarisation, prostatism, egression, multicentricity, peremptoriness, negligibility, tabooing, antigravitational, more...

Opposite:
reformation, protestantism



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