recatholicization

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ catholicization.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹiːkəθɒlɪsʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/

Noun

recatholicization (plural recatholicizations)

1. The act of making a person or region Catholic again.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 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 [...].