waldensian
Speech parts
1. waldensian - Noun
2. waldensian - Adjective
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the Waldenses.
One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.
Source: Webster's dictionaryExamples
Angier, p 44. The children spent summers with their mother in the Waldensian valleys southwest of Turin, where Rina rented a farmhouse.
Italy further Waldensian symbol Lux lucet in tenebris ("Light glows in the darkness") Word of the Protestant reformers reached Italy in the 1520s, but never caught on.
He was burned at Cologne in the 1370s; coincidentally, a Waldensian teacher named Lolhard was tried for heresy in Austria in 1315.
These included the Fraticelli and Waldensian movements in Italy and the Hussites in Bohemia (inspired by John Wycliffe in England).
Ludwig Keller, Thomas M. Lindsay, H. C. Vedder, Delbert Grätz, John T. Christian and Thieleman J. van Braght (author of Martyrs Mirror ) all held, in varying degrees, the position that the Anabaptists were of Waldensian origin.
The Waldensian movement was characterized from the beginning by lay preaching, voluntary poverty and strict adherence to the Bible.