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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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 Church, torn by schism, and fiercely assailed at once in England and in the German empire, was in a situation scarcely less perilous than at the crisis which preceded the Albigensian crusade.

From Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

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

He at once threw himself into his rude task with an energy that showed him to be a true son of the Albigensian crusader.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by William Hunt

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

He held aloof from the crusade against the Albigensians with as much wisdom, and more than as much dignity, as he had displayed, seventeen years before, in withdrawing from the crusade against the Saracens.

From A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by Robert Black

The attitude of these Albigensians toward the Bible was a somewhat divided one.

From The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation by Ernst Von Dobschutz