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Wal·den·ses (wäl den′sēz)

a sect of dissenters from the Roman Catholic Church which arose about 1170 in S France: excommunicated in 1184, they survive esp. in northwestern Italy

Etymology: ME waldensis < ML waldenses, after Peter Waldo, 12th-c. Fr merchant and founder of the sect

Waldenses Related Forms
Wal·den′·sian adjective, noun

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