单词 | waldenses |
释义 | Waldensesn. Church History. With plural agreement. 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 cent., and still exists, chiefly in Northern Italy and the adjacent regions. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Waldensian > [noun] > person > collective Waldenses1537 Vaudois1560 Vaudese1781 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 501 Also the sect of Waldensis.] 1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes Contents Waldenses secte. 1537 tr. Original & Sprynge All Sectes 48 The order of Waldenses or Picardes. 1579 W. Fulke Confut. Treat. N. Sander in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 594 He adioyneth Anno Do. 1160. the Waldensses, whome hee calleth beggers of Lyons. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 29 Valdo..caused Bookes of scripture to be translated, and so beganne the sect of Valdenses, or Pauperes de Lugduno. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xvii. 159 If we may beleeve what the Papists themselves have writt'n of these Churches, which they call Waldenses. 1774 J. W. Fletcher Hist. Ess. in First Pt. Equal Check 15 The true Quakers..have made as firm a stand against the Antinomians, as the Valdenses against the Papists. 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 323 The Waldenses, under their more modern name of the Vaudois, have survived to the present day in the valleys of Piedmont. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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