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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The movement of reform within the Roman Catholic Church which followed, and partly counteracted the effects of, the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century. See
reformation , 3.
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Examples
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It has to do with what you might call the musicological counter-reformation — the reaction against the New Musicology and various other revisionist strains.
Archive 2009-06-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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The tragedy is that any hope for a made-in-Afghanistan solution to archaic fundamentalism and brutality has been squelched by heavy-handed military intervention, with its thousands of civilian deaths, and political machinations that leave Karzai without sufficient credibility to stay in power unless he enacts Taliban-like measures -- a classic bit of counter-reformation, but in reverse.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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It has to do with what you might call the musicological counter-reformation — the reaction against the New Musicology and various other revisionist strains.
A juke box hero, got stars in his eyes Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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Outside, the world was buzzing over the news of NBC's counter-reformation.
A Bright Spot in the Leno Debacle? The Failure of NBC's Cynical Strategy 2010
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This is going to be a big event for the whole of Europe - on a par with trials of conscience during the reformation and counter-reformation.
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Outside, the world was buzzing over the news of NBC's counter-reformation.
A Bright Spot in the Leno Debacle? The Failure of NBC's Cynical Strategy 2010
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In the age of the counter-reformation, these nuns' lives were getting ever more circumscribed as they were segregated in newly "enclosed" convents.
Force of habit: the lonely souls trapped in religious art Jonathan Jones 2010
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It is of the same mold that led to the phalangists in Spain: a counter-reformation against the Enlightenment, maybe even the Renaissance.
Balkinization 2007
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It is of the same mold that led to the phalangists in Spain: a counter-reformation against the Enlightenment, maybe even the Renaissance.
Balkinization 2007
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It is of the same mold that led to the phalangists in Spain: a counter-reformation against the Enlightenment, maybe even the Renaissance.
Balkinization 2007
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