Wal|den|ses

Wal|den|ses
Wal|den|ses «wol DEHN seez», noun (plural).
a Christian sect that arose about 1170 in southern France and in the 1500's joined the Reformation movement.
[< Medieval Latin Waldenses, plural < Waldensis, Latinization of Peter Waldo, merchant at Lyons, France in the 1100's, who founded the sect]

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