ˈCounter-reforˈmation
[counter- 4.]
A reformation following on, and running counter to, another; applied in Hist. to the movement in the Church of Rome which followed on the Protestant Reformation.
| 1840 S. Austin Ranke's Hist. Popes v. iv. (heading) (1866) II. 25 Beginning of the Counter-reformation in Germany. Ibid. II. 92 From this time the Counter-reformation began throughout all the Archducal territory. 1889 A. W. Ward Counter-Reform. Pref., It is not always easy to define the correct use of even so well-worn a phrase as ‘the Counter-Reformation’. 1890 M. Warre tr. Döllinger's Stud. Europ. Hist. 88 In Bavaria the counter-reformation was accomplished under William V. |