Definition of Waldinses
Waldenses, a Christian community founded in 1170 in the south of
France, on the model of the primitive Church, by Peter Walden, a rich
citizen of Lyons, and who were driven by persecution from country to
country until they settled in Piedmont under the name of the
Vaudois ( q. v.), where they still exist.
- Wikipedia
Wal*den"ses (?; 277), n. pl. [So called from
Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who
founded this sect about a. d. 1170.] (Eccl. Hist.) A
sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic
Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys
of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant
principles.
Wal*den"ses (?; 277), n. pl. [So called from
Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who
founded this sect about a. d. 1170.] (Eccl. Hist.) A
sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic
Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys
of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant
principles.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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