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counterreformation

NOUN
  1. a reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation

How To Use counterreformation In A Sentence

  • The Counterreformation helped establish new charitable institutions, the case di carita, that were geared toward the support of single women from the lower classes but also allowed some upper-class women a retreat from marriage (in ways that resemble the beguinages of northern Europe).
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