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Definition of Counterreformation
1. Noun. A reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Counterreformation
Literary usage of Counterreformation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1914)
"... 7, 446; 8, 395, 396; 9, 79, 267, 486; 10, 195; 11, 24, 467; 12, 245, 248, 249,
390, 391, 469 congregation of the: 11, 400 and the counterreformation: в, ..."
2. Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written by Ezra Pound, Ernest Francisco Fenollosa (1920)
"Dc Gourmont prepared our era; behind him there stretches a limitless darkness;
there was the counterreformation, still extant in the English printer; ..."
3. Loyola and the Educational System of the Jesuits by Thomas Hughes (1892)
"... to become soon one of the most representative universities of the Company,
and the German centre of what has been called the “CounterReformation. ..."
4. Politics and Religion: A Study in Scottish History from the Reformation to by William Law Mathieson (1902)
"The spirit of the Renaissance, which had been temporarily driven back, first by
the Reformation, and then by the CounterReformation, was now to triumph over ..."
5. Renaissance in Italy by John Addington Symonds (1886)
"... nation in a new and previously unapprehended form of unity, the history of
the CounterReformation period would be almost too painful for investigation. ..."
6. Sir Philip Sidney by John Addington Symonds (1886)
"Two matters of grave import occupied his mind. These were; first, the menacing
attitude of Spain and the advance of the CounterReformation; secondly, ..."
7. A History of German Literature by William Scherer (1906)
"... peace of though Protestant theologians might tear each other to, 1 - pieces,
though the Jesuits might advance boldly, organizing a counterreformation, ..."
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