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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century [syn: Waldenses, Vaudois]

Merriam Webster's

noun plural Etymology: Middle English Waldensis, from Medieval Latin Waldenses, Valdenses, from Peter Waldo (or Valdo) Date: 15th century a Christian sect arising in southern France in the 12th century, adopting Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century, and later living chiefly in Piedmont • Waldensian adjective or noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n.pl. a puritan religious sect orig. in S. France, now chiefly in Italy and America, founded c.1170 and much persecuted. Derivatives: Waldensian adj. & n. Etymology: med.L f. Peter Waldo of Lyons, founder

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Waldenses Wal*den"ses (?; 277), n. pl. [So called from Petrus Waldus, or Peter Waldo, a merchant of Lyons, who founded this sect about a. d. 1170.] (Eccl. Hist.) A sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont, where the sect survives. They profess substantially Protestant principles.