What's the difference between albigenses and catharist?

Albigenses


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Alt. of Albigeois

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Catharist


Definition:

  • (n.) One aiming at or pretending to a greater purity of like than others about him; -- applied to persons of various sects. See Albigenses.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Yet the split virgin is also clearly related to the Catharist heresy, which overtook Europe in the twelfth century and which held, in defiance of Christian orthodoxy, that the cosmos was divided between the force of good and the force of evil.

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