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albigenses

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Noun Plural

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Al=bi=gen=ses

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun albigenses has 1 sense

albigenses(n = noun.group) cathari, cathars - a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism; Array

is a kind of religious order, religious sect, sect

Derived form adjective albigensian₁

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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]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

albigenses, n.pl. the members of a heretic sect in S. France in the
12th-13th c.

Derivative

Albigensian adj.

Etymology

L f. Albi in S. France

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