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counterreformation

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coun·ter·ref·or·ma·tion  (kountr-rfr-mshn)
n.
A reformation intended to counter the consequences of a previous reformation.
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Noun1.counterreformation - a reformation intended to counter the results of a prior reformation
reformation - improvement (or an intended improvement) in the existing form or condition of institutions or practices etc.; intended to make a striking change for the better in social or political or religious affairs


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Another fundamental change occurred when 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, I might add, that resemble the beguinages of northern Europe).
Working Women of Early Modern Venice by Simons, Walter / Journal of Social History
The people of southern Italy shared a history of pain on the largest scale fathomable: centuries of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, mudslides, epidemics, revolts, famines, invasions, counterreformations, a communal memory of the works of man collapsing, crumbling, shaking, corpses burning, bodies thrown into the sea.
A BLOCK OF GRANITE by Coughlan, Neil / Commonweal
Through his review of the history of social constructionism and feminism, sexual revolution and counterreformation, Money provides a useful analysis of the ideological context for the science of sexology.
Gendermaps: Social Constructionism, Feminism, and Sexosophical History by Bockting, Walter O. / The Journal of Sex Research
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