Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural A Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 1100s and adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 1500s.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The Waldensians.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.
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- noun Plural form of
Waldense .
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- noun a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century
Etymologies
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Cathari, Poor Men of Lyons, Lombards, Albigenses, Waldenses, Vaudois, etc. The name Waldenses and Albigenses have frequently been loosely applied to all the bands of people that passed under various titles in different countries and that opposed the doctrines and ecclesiastical tyranny of Rome.
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The sect first assumed only the simple name of "the poor men of Lyons," but soon became known as the Waldenses, one of the most powerful and most widely spread sects of the Middle Ages.
The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History Annie Wood Besant 1890
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In southern France, there were the Poor of Lyons, known as the Waldenses, after their leader Peter Waldo, who, advocating a renunciation of material goods, promoted reform without resorting to dualist thought.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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In southern France, there also arose the heretical group known as the Waldenses, the followers of Peter Waldes, who called themselves the Poor of Lyons.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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They are called Waldenses, after the name of their leader, and oppose corrupt doctrines and practices with the plain truths of the Word of God.
The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger
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As early as 1523, he became a persecutor, and burned many at the stake, among whom the descendants of the Waldenses were the most numerous.
A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon For the Use of Schools and Colleges John Lord 1852
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I came also to the conclusion, that the land which the Lord had given to the Waldenses was a "large" as well as a "good" land.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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But the Waldenses were a primitive and simple people; they had neither king nor leader; their only sovereign was Jehovah; their only guides were their _Barbes_.
Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849
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Sometimes they were erroneously styled "Waldenses" by their contemporaries.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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But one elaborate argument may be found, by an eminent antiquary (_Archaologia_, nine 292-309), urging that survivors of this company were probably the ancestors of a mysterious group entitled "Waldenses," who appear in the
One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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