protestant reformation

1. 1.

   a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches

   SynonymsReformation

   Broaderreligious movement

Questions about protestant reformation

What does protestant reformation mean?

protestant reformation means "a religious movement of the 16th century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches".

What is another word for protestant reformation?

Close synonyms include Reformation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is protestant reformation a common word?

protestant reformation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.