|pe.trō|brüzhən, -shən noun
( -s )
Usage: usually capitalized
Etymology: Medieval Latin petrobrusianus, from Petrus Brusius Pierre de Bruys died ab 1126 French religious reformer who founded the sect of the Petrobrusians + Latin -anus -an
: a member of a 12th-century French sect rejecting infant baptism, the mass, prayers for the dead, and the veneration of the cross and opposing the construction of churches