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counterreformer

Meaning of "counterreformer" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COUNTERREFORMER

ˌkaʊntərɪˈfɔːmə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF COUNTERREFORMER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Counterreformer is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES COUNTERREFORMER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of counterreformer in the English dictionary

The definition of counterreformer in the dictionary is a reformer who acts in opposition to another reform.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH COUNTERREFORMER

autotransformer · barnstormer · benchwarmer · conformer · deformer · dormer · former · informer · korma · misinformer · nonperformer · Norma · ormer · performer · reformer · sixth-former · stormer · transformer · trauma · warmer

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COUNTERREFORMER

counterproof · counterproposal · counterprotest · counterpunch · counterpuncher · counterquestion · counterraid · counterrally · counterreaction · counterreform · counterresponse · countersank · counterscarp · counterseal · countershading · countershaft · countershot · countersign · countersignature · countersink

WORDS THAT END LIKE COUNTERREFORMER

affirmer · armer · brainstormer · charmer · confirmer · dewormer · farmer · firmer · gentleman-farmer · harmer · legwarmer · opinion former · pig farmer · snake charmer · step-down transformer · step-up transformer · Sturmer · termer · the former · wormer

Synonyms and antonyms of counterreformer in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «counterreformer» into 25 languages

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The translations of counterreformer from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «counterreformer» in English.
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counterreformer
1,325 millions of speakers
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
380 millions of speakers
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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Counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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Counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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प्रतिरूपक
75 millions of speakers
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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counterreformer
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERREFORMER»

Discover the use of counterreformer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to counterreformer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Reform and Counterreform: Dialectics of the Word in Western ...
My questions are these: How pervasive did a dialectical image of Ignatius as Counterreformer become? Did it replace or largely eclipse other images of him? By the time of his canonization, was it the dominant or controlling image? Did those ...
John Charles Hawley, 1994
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Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe
vonGörtz,whohadbeen steward of the princebishop Julius Echter, azealous counterreformer. Itreflectsasituation thatisinmany respects typical. Catholicinstitutions—a seminary, provostaries,a Jesuitcollege—were faced withacitizenry that was ...
Jon Arrizabalaga, Andrew Cunningham, Ole Peter Grell, 2005
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Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs: Central Europe C.1683-1867
This response by Bohemia's Protestant estates was nevertheless a reluctant one, lacking in real Hussite resonance: not a year earlier, they had accepted without serious protest the notorious CounterReformer, Ferdinand of Styria, as heir to his  ...
R. J. W. Evans, 2006
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Reading Jonathan Edwards: An Annotated Bibliography in Three ...
Cites two antecedents — there may be more — to Edwards's metaphor of the dangling sinner: the medieval mystic William Hinton in his Scale of Perfection and the counterreformer Luis de Granada in his Of Prayer and Meditation. 6 Gerstner ...
M. X. Lesser, 2008
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Reform in Modern Russian History: Progress Or Cycle?
Reutern tried it as a reformer; Shuvalov tried it as a counterreformer. Witte perhaps came close to bringing it off, but he never controlled the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Stolypin succeeded, but that was highly unusual. Perhaps even more ...
Theodore Taranovski, Peggy McInerny, 1995
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Andrew Melville (1545–1622): Writings, Reception, and Reputation
No one emphasized racialandethnic differencemore emphatically than did the militant AngloDutch CounterReformer Richard Verstegan. His A Restitution ofDecayed Intelligence (1605) confronted Hume's contemporaneous DeUnione and ...
Professor Roger A Mason, Dr Steven J Reid, 2014
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The Rhetorics of Thomas Hobbes and Bernard Lamy
Was Hobbes a Ramist, and if not, was he a counterreformer? His own practice was too eclectic, too idiosyncratic, to allow easy classification, and my judgment is that he falls into neither camp. Hobbes was especially resistant to all systems but ...
John T. Harwood, 2009
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Letters from Freedom: Post Cold War Realities and Perspectives
Burke was a counterreformer. Following in the footsteps of Montesquieu, he recognized clearly the complex problems posed by the Revolution. He argued that the values of the Revolution should be assimilated by working for change by  ...
Adam Michnik, Irena Grudzińska-Gross, 1998
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WORD JUDGE USA
... COUNTERRALLIES COUNTERRALLY COUNTERRALLYING COUNTERREACTION COUNTERREACTIONS COUNTERRECONNAISSANCE COUNTERREFORM COUNTERREFORMER COUNTERREFORMERS COUNTERREFORMS ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
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The Art Firm: Aesthetic Management and Metaphysical Marketing
41 To rise above the risk of being considered a papist counterreformer, Schelling looked to the Classical pre-Christian era for guidance. This was the time when art was socially accepted on its own terms as serious reality, not as futile fantasy.
Pierre Guillet de Monthoux, 2004
REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Counterreformer [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/counterreformer>. May 2024 ».
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