recatholicizationn.

1919 Z. Lee et al. Spirit of Russia xx. 416 The so-called romanticism which followed the revolution was largely characterised by a strengthening of religious sentiment and above all by recatholicisation.

1949 Sc. Jrnl. Theol. 2 241 The pressure for visible unity, for a recatholicisation of the Churches, has..[come] from the ‘evangelical’ movements burdened with fulfilling the mission of the Gospel to the whole world.

1991 Internat. Affairs 67 243 The Church..declared itself satisfied at achieving what appeared to be the ‘recatholicization’ of Polish society.