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

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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

When the embassy was over, the bishop and Dominic repaired to Rome, and Innocent III. charged them to preach among the Albigensian heretics in Languedoc.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" by Various

They disappeared almost completely in the storm of the Albigensian crusade.

From Life of St. Francis of Assisi by Louise Seymour Houghton

It was begun just at the time when the Provençal poetry was ended in the ruin of the South and of the Southern chivalry, after the Albigensian crusade.

From Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 by W. P. (William Paton) Ker

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

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

Albigensians, Hallam on doctrines of, 232; Hardwick on same, 233; Dominic preaches against, 234; Dominic's part in crusade against, 235.

From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart

But "the enticing words of man's wisdom" failed to win the Albigensians from what they believed to be the words of God.

From A Short History of Monks and Monasteries by Alfred Wesley Wishart

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