WALDENSES


Meaning of WALDENSES in English

n.pl. a puritan religious sect orig. in S. France, now chiefly in Italy and America, founded c.1170 and much persecuted. Waldensian adj. & n.

[ med.L f. Peter Waldo of Lyons, founder ]

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