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单词 Cathar
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Definition of Cathar in English:

Cathar

noun ˈkaθɑːˈkæθɑr
  • A member of a heretical medieval Christian sect which professed a form of Manichaean dualism and sought to achieve great spiritual purity.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He once enchanted a coterie of his admirers, myself among them, by replying to a question about his beloved Cathars with a vivid impromptu on Light Religion and Dark Religion.
    • According to legend, a dark secret has been guarded in the mountains of the Languedoc by the Cathars, the Knights Templar and, most recently, by a society known as the Priory of Sion.
    • The Cathars refused to accept Christianity and were massacred by the Church near Toulouse in France.
    • Pope Innocent III declares a crusade against the Languedoc region of southern France, stronghold of the heretical Cathar Christian sect.
    • The crusade was aimed at the Cathars, members of a heretical Christian sect that believed that the world was created by the devil and was inherently evil.
    • The Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars was the most vicious example of this.
    • Innocent, more than a little peeved, began the Albigensian Crusade and for 20 years scoured the land for Cathars.
    • The appellation takes its name from the village of Minerve, scene of one of the bloodiest sieges of the Cathar sect in the 13th century.
    • Beyond Carcassone is Pays Cathar, or Cathar country, a place where a sect of Christianity flourished for some time before being stamped out around 1233.
    • To choose to convert might involve the ‘choice’ of being thrown to the lions for an early Christian, or being burned at the stake for a medieval Cathar.
    • This was one of the reasons, too, why for a long time he was interested in that rather narrow version of Christianity, the religion of the Cathars.
    • Other pilgrims, including not a few former Cathars, came as penitents.
    • It is difficult now to reconstruct the Cathars ' views exactly, but it seems fairly clear that they were dualists who held that the visible world is more or less corrupt, imperfect, or downright evil.
    • In truth, the Cathars were the medieval good guys, struggling for purer Christianity amid Roman church decadence.
    • Heresy can only exist where there is an orthodoxy to define it: both medieval Catholics and medieval Cathars laid claim to being true Christians.
    • Simon is best known as the ruthless leader of the notorious Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics of southern France.
    • They demanded that the townspeople - ordinary Roman Catholics - either hand over the Cathars or leave the city so that the remaining Cathars could be more easily dealt with.
    • The city was built by Cathars to withstand the belligerence of Catholic armies, but its gates now stand open.
    • It also relied on ruthless suppression or marginalization of those whom it deemed deviants, such as Jews, Cathars, and Hussites.
    • She lumps Manichean Cathars together with Franciscans and Waldensians.

Derivatives

  • Catharism

  • noun
    • Incidentally, it has always seemed strange to me that modern New Agers and others are attracted to Catharism, with its uncompromising rejection of our world.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Scholastics' responses to Catharism in particular drew extensively on their concept of the natural law.
      • But in the end, the defeat of Catharism in the south of France was achieved through the extension of royal authority to the area and the establishment of the Inquisition, which was used to brutally root out the heresy.
      • Whether, as has been conjectured, an ancient stratum of peasant materialism or an underground current of Catharism provided the interpretive framework for his reading cannot be determined.
      • Known as Catharism (from the Greek katharos: purity), it held that the world of God was the world of the spirit, while the material world, the world of time, was the realm of the Devil.
  • Catharist

  • noun & adjective
    • In the Middle Ages, some groups, such as the Waldenses and Catharists, rejected infant baptism.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In 1929, he made a special trip to the Languedoc region of Southern France, a hotbed of Catharist activities in the thirteenth century.
      • Both authors discuss the Catharist revival of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, accenting different aspects of it, and both offer epilogues on the later legacies of Catharism.
      • Between 1030-1040 an important Catharist community was discovered at the castle of Monteforte near Asti in Piedmont.
      • The Catharists considered themselves to hold the Christian faith in its most pristine form.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin Cathari (plural), from Greek katharoi 'the pure'.

 
 

Definition of Cathar in US English:

Cathar

nounˈkæθɑrˈkaTHär
  • A member of a heretical medieval Christian sect which professed a form of Manichaean dualism and sought to achieve great spiritual purity.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The city was built by Cathars to withstand the belligerence of Catholic armies, but its gates now stand open.
    • She lumps Manichean Cathars together with Franciscans and Waldensians.
    • It also relied on ruthless suppression or marginalization of those whom it deemed deviants, such as Jews, Cathars, and Hussites.
    • Simon is best known as the ruthless leader of the notorious Albigensian Crusade against the Cathar heretics of southern France.
    • According to legend, a dark secret has been guarded in the mountains of the Languedoc by the Cathars, the Knights Templar and, most recently, by a society known as the Priory of Sion.
    • Innocent, more than a little peeved, began the Albigensian Crusade and for 20 years scoured the land for Cathars.
    • It is difficult now to reconstruct the Cathars ' views exactly, but it seems fairly clear that they were dualists who held that the visible world is more or less corrupt, imperfect, or downright evil.
    • This was one of the reasons, too, why for a long time he was interested in that rather narrow version of Christianity, the religion of the Cathars.
    • The Cathars refused to accept Christianity and were massacred by the Church near Toulouse in France.
    • The Albigensian Crusade against the Cathars was the most vicious example of this.
    • To choose to convert might involve the ‘choice’ of being thrown to the lions for an early Christian, or being burned at the stake for a medieval Cathar.
    • The crusade was aimed at the Cathars, members of a heretical Christian sect that believed that the world was created by the devil and was inherently evil.
    • Other pilgrims, including not a few former Cathars, came as penitents.
    • In truth, the Cathars were the medieval good guys, struggling for purer Christianity amid Roman church decadence.
    • The appellation takes its name from the village of Minerve, scene of one of the bloodiest sieges of the Cathar sect in the 13th century.
    • They demanded that the townspeople - ordinary Roman Catholics - either hand over the Cathars or leave the city so that the remaining Cathars could be more easily dealt with.
    • Pope Innocent III declares a crusade against the Languedoc region of southern France, stronghold of the heretical Cathar Christian sect.
    • Beyond Carcassone is Pays Cathar, or Cathar country, a place where a sect of Christianity flourished for some time before being stamped out around 1233.
    • He once enchanted a coterie of his admirers, myself among them, by replying to a question about his beloved Cathars with a vivid impromptu on Light Religion and Dark Religion.
    • Heresy can only exist where there is an orthodoxy to define it: both medieval Catholics and medieval Cathars laid claim to being true Christians.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin Cathari (plural), from Greek katharoi ‘the pure’.

 
 
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