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Webster 1913 Edition
Albigeois
{
Alˊbi-gen′ses
, ‖Alˊbiˊgeois′
, }Noun.
pl.
[From
Albi
and Albigeois
, a town and its district in the south of France, in which the sect abounded.] (Eccl. Hist.)
A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.
The Albigenses were a branch of the Catharists (the pure). They were exterminated by crusades and the Inquisition. They were distinct from the Waldenses.
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French
Adjective
albigeois m (feminine singular albigeoise, masculine plural albigeois, feminine plural albigeoises)
- Albi (attributive)