Definitions for Waldenses

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Waldenses Wal·den·ses

Spelling: [wawl-den-seez, wol-]

IPA: /wɔlˈdɛn siz, wɒl-/

Waldenses is a 9 letter English word.

You can make 359 anagrams from letters in Waldenses (adeelnssw).

Definitions for Waldenses

noun

1. a Christian sect that arose after 1170 in southern France, under the leadership of Pierre Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, and joined the Reformation movement in the 16th century.

Origin of Waldenses

plural of Middle English Waldensis Medieval Latin, after Pierre Waldo; see -ensis

Examples for Waldenses

Nor were the Waldenses content simply to maintain their faith.

But pray let us hear what doctrine the Waldenses teach in this affair.

The work of the Waldenses, excellent as it was, cannot be compared to his.

Two Confessions of the faith of the Waldenses are valuable monuments.

We are told of some of the artifices practised by Waldenses.

The storm of papal persecution first burst upon the Waldenses in France.

Behold the life and doctrine, instruction and practice, of the ancient Waldenses.

But of all the heretical bodies in Bohemia the most influential were the Waldenses.

If the Taborites taught the Waldenses, who taught the Taborites?

The Waldenses inhabit their hills, much as the Jews did their Palestine.