Albigensian

American  

[al-buh-jen-see-uhn, -jen-shuhn] / ˌæl bəˈdʒɛn si ən, -ˈdʒɛn ʃən /

noun

• Albigensians
  plural

1. a member of the Albigenses or a person who follows the doctrine associated with the Albigenses.

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adjective

1. relating to the Albigenses, their doctrines, or the crusade against them.

Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• Albigensianism
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• Albigensians
  plural

Example Sentences

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Albigensian Albigensians

We're chucked headlong into the centre of the Albigensian French Crusades and the quest for the Holy Grail, as Alaïs, the daughter of a Grail guardian, is handed a rather important ring.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2013

Others sang such outrageous satires against the papacy that they helped provoke the ruinous Albigensian Crusade.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Albigensian Crusades had put an end to open resistance, yet the heretics were none the less numerous, and, if less defiant, were only the more difficult to discover.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

Whether this new feature in the public law of Europe could establish itself was the question at issue in the Albigensian crusades.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

Sicily was the most civilized place in Europe, now that Southern France had been crushed by the Albigensian persecution.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

They were Albigensians, heretics, and their songs, their protocols of courtly love, were simply the elaborate double-talk of a theology driven underground.

From Time Magazine Archive

Let's not advertise the Albigensians as simon-pure Christians, which they were not, at least in principle.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sir: In a footnote to your story, we are told that the Albigensians adopted a "strict, other worldly practice of Christianity, and were virtually exterminated by the church."

From Time Magazine Archive

And he took for mistresses the Lady Mandetta and the Lady Giovanna, who represented the one the Albigensians, the other the Ghibellines.

From The Well of Saint Clare by A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson

Paulicians, Petrobrusians, Albigensians, and kindred sects, all started from the principle of dualism, and even at the time were openly accused of Manicheistic ideas.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thebaud