Definitions for Counter-Reformation

Counter-Reformation Counter Reformation

IPA: /ˌkaʊntəˌrɛfəˈmeɪʃən/

Counter-Reformation is a 19 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 2697 anagrams from letters in Counter-Reformation (-aceefimnnooorrrttu).

Definitions for Counter-Reformation

noun

  1. the movement within the Roman Catholic Church that followed the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.

Examples for Counter-Reformation

Such were the preparations in Italy for the counter-reformation.

The counter-reformation, of course, must always be taken into account in estimates of the latter period of Italian history.

In Savoy, in Switzerland, and many other countries, the progress of the counter-reformation had been rapid and decisive.

It must be taken as the starting-point of the counter-reformation in Germany.

In truth the counter-reformation may be said to date historically from 1527.

In Savoy, in Switzerland and many other countries, the progress of the counter-reformation had been rapid and decisive.

Under him the Jesuits were encouraged to press on the counter-reformation.

To him, and to him alone, was due the triumph of the counter-reformation in Chablais.

It is almost impossible fully to represent the unwisdom of this counter-reformation.

See "Council of Trent and the counter-reformation," ix, 293.

Word Value for Counter-Reformation
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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