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albigenses
CIDE DICTIONARY
albigenses, n. pl. [From Albi and Albigeois, a town and its district in the south of France, in which the sect abounded.].
A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries. [1913 Webster]
"The Albigenses were a branch of the Catharists (the pure). They were exterminated by crusades and the Inquisition. They were distinct from the Waldenses." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
albigenses, n.pl. the members of a heretic sect in S. France in the
12th-13th c.
12th-13th c.
Derivative
Albigensian adj.
Etymology
L f. Albi in S. France
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