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Waldenses, n. pl. Eccl. Hist.|wɒlˈdɛnsiːz|
Also (6 Waldensses), 7–9 Valdenses.
[a. med.L. Waldensēs (Valdensēs), app. f. Waldensis, a variant form of the cognomen of Peter Waldo: see below. Cf. the Fr. form Vaudois.]
The adherents of a religious sect which originated in the south of France about 1170 through the preaching of Peter Waldo, a rich merchant of Lyons. They were excommunicated in 1184, and eventually became a separately organized church, which associated itself with the Protestant Reformation of the 16th c., and still exists, chiefly in Northern Italy and the adjacent regions.
[c1449Pecock Repr. v. iii. 501 Also the sect of Waldensis.] 1537Orig. & Sprynge of Sectes Contents, Waldenses secte. Ibid. 48 The order of Waldenses or Picardes. 1579Fulke Confut. Sanders 594 He adioyneth Anno Do. 1160. the Waldensses, whome hee calleth beggers of Lyons. 1579― Heskins's Parl. 29 Valdo..caused Bookes of scripture to be translated, and so beganne the sect of Valdenses, or Pauperes de Lugduno. 1649Milton Eikon. xvii. 159 If we may beleeve what the Papists themselves have writt'n of these Churches, which they call Waldenses. 1774Fletcher Hist. Ess. Wks. 1795 IV. 13 The true Quakers..made as firm a stand against the Antinomians, as the Valdenses did against the Papists. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 323 The Waldenses, under their more modern name of the Vaudois, have survived to the present day in the valleys of Piedmont. |