Albigenses

American  

[al-bi-jen-seez] / ˌæl bɪˈdʒɛn siz /

plural noun

1. members of a Catharistic sect in the south of France that arose in the 11th century and was exterminated in the 13th century by a crusade AlbigensianCrusade and the Inquisition.

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Albigenses British  

/ ˌælbɪˈdʒɛnsiːz /

plural noun

1. members of a Manichean sect that flourished in S France from the 11th to the 13th century

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Other Word Forms

• Albigensianism
  noun
• Albigensian
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of Albigenses

< Medieval Latin Albīgēnsēs, plural of Albīgēnsis, equivalent to Albīg ( a ) Albi + -ēnsis -ensis

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Example Sentences

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Albigenses

Prophet Miller seems to claim precedents in the Essenes, the Albigenses and the heretical underground of Hieronymus Bosch.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was one of the instigators of the cruel and inhuman crusade against the Albigenses about 1212.

From The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) by Frederic Rowland Marvin

Printing came to the aid of the resistance inaugurated by the Vaudois and the Albigenses.

From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Honor? de Balzac

He was afterwards engaged in the wars of the Albigenses, and on being accused of heresy his lands were given to Simon IV., count of Montfort.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various

The Armenians were no more precariously situated than the Albigenses under Innocent III.

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer

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