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单词 Waldenses
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Definition of Waldenses in English:

Waldenses

plural noun wɒlˈdɛnsiːz
  • A puritan religious sect based originally in southern France, now chiefly in Italy and America, founded c.1170 by Peter Valdes (d.1205), a merchant of Lyons.

    韦尔多派(原先以法国南部为基地的一个清教徒宗教派别,现在主要在意大利和美国活动;该派别大约在1170年由里昂商人彼得·瓦尔德斯 卒于1205年创立)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Germany it targeted a sect called the Waldenses, and pantheists.
    • The proclamational approach of the book of Acts had gradually transferred from Rome to the sectarian movements of the early and mid-Middle Ages: e.g. Paulicians, Albigenses, and Waldenses.
    • The poorly equipped Waldenses (also called Vaudois) offered heroic resistance.

Derivatives

  • Waldensian

  • adjective & noun wɒlˈdɛnsɪən
    • Not only the Protestant British enthusiasts for Italy but their Waldensian friends and allies were drawn into the maelstrom.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He could paint such a picture because the success of popular heretical and evangelical movements, such as the Waldensians and Albigensians, was positively explosive.
      • The Waldensian church began during a religious revival near Lyon, France during the twelfth century, predating the Protestant Reformation that swept through Europe in the sixteenth century.
      • During the persecution of Protestants by the Habsburg dynasty in the seventeenth century, the Moravians, who had converted many German Waldensians living in Moravia, emigrated to Saxony.
      • Jan Milic Lochman's contribution to David Willis and Michael Welker's book emphasizes the history of radical reform among Waldensians, Hussites and Czech Brethren.

Rhymes

Albigenses, amanuenses, menses

Definition of Waldenses in US English:

Waldenses

plural noun
  • A Christian sect that was founded in southern France c.1170 by Peter Valdes (d.1205), a merchant of Lyons, and adopted Calvinist doctrines during the Reformation, now existing chiefly in Italy and America.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In Germany it targeted a sect called the Waldenses, and pantheists.
    • The proclamational approach of the book of Acts had gradually transferred from Rome to the sectarian movements of the early and mid-Middle Ages: e.g. Paulicians, Albigenses, and Waldenses.
    • The poorly equipped Waldenses (also called Vaudois) offered heroic resistance.
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