recatholicization

UK/ɹiːkəθɒlɪsʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/

noun

The act of making a person or region Catholic again.

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Meanings

nounrecatholicization (plural recatholicizations)

plural recatholicizations

  1. The act of making a person or region Catholic again.

    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, published 2010, page 744

Origin

From re- + Catholicization.

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APA

recatholicization. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recatholicization

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“recatholicization.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recatholicization. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “recatholicization,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/recatholicization.

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