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Waldenses

noun
1.
A Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century.  Synonym: Vaudois.






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... religious persecution, which inflamed the Roman Church to punish all dissenters from the doctrine and abuses she promulgated, can never be questioned. The Waldenses and Albigenses had suffered, in darker times, almost incredible hardships and miseries—had been almost annihilated by the dreadful crusade which was carried on against them, so that two hundred thousand had perished for supposed ...
— A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon - For the Use of Schools and Colleges • John Lord



Words linked to "Waldenses" :   religious sect, sect, Vaudois, religious order



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