recatholicization
English
Etymology
From re- + catholicization.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹiːkəθɒlɪsʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/
Noun
recatholicization (plural recatholicizations)
- The act of making a person or region Catholic again.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 744:
- 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 2010, p. 744: