Counter-Reformation

See also: Counterreformation and Counter Reformation

English

Alternative forms

• Counterreformation, Counter Reformation

Etymology

From counter- +‎ Reformation.

Proper noun

Counter-Reformation

1. (historical) A period of Roman Catholic revival that aimed to combat the Reformation.
   • 2017, Anthony D. Wright, The Counter-Reformation: Catholic Europe and the Non-Christian World, Routledge, →ISBN, page 1:

     The Counter-Reformation was originally the creation of modern historians. The negative view, adopted by nineteenth-century German, and essentially Protestant, scholars, of those developments in Western Christendom which were opposed to the sixteenth-century Reformation, was characterized by the term ‘anti-Reformation’.

Derived terms

• Counter-Reformer

Translations

period of Roman Catholic revival that aimed to combat the Reformation

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 反宗教改革 (Fǎn Zōngjiàogǎigé)

• Czech: protireformace f
• Dutch: contrareformatie (nl) f
• Finnish: vastauskonpuhdistus
• French: Contre-Réforme (fr) f
• German: Gegenreformation (de) f
• Greek: αντιμεταρρύθμιση (el) f (antimetarrýthmisi)
• Hungarian: ellenreformáció (hu)
• Italian: controriforma (it) f
• Polish: kontrreformacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: Contrarreforma f

Further reading

• “Counter-Reformation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Counter-Reformation, Counterreformation at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.