WALDENSES

Definition: WALDENSES

WALDENSES

Noun plural

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definitions: WALDENSES

Domain	Definitions
Literature	Waldenses So called from Peter Waldo, a citizen of Lyons, who founded a preaching society in 1176. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
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Commercial Usage: WALDENSES

Domain	Title
Books	History of the Waldenses (reference) Israel of the Alps: A Complete History of the Waldenses and Their Colonies (reference) Origin, Persecutions and Doctrines of the Waldenses from Documents (reference) The Reformation of the Heretics: The Waldenses of the Alps 1480-1580 (reference) The Waldenses, 1170-1530: Between a Religious Order and a Church (reference) (more book examples)
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Usage Frequency: WALDENSES

"WALDENSES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "WALDENSES" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Frequency of Internet Keywords: WALDENSES

Rhyming with "WALDENSES"

Anagrams: WALDENSES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-s-s-w"
	-1 letter: lewdness.
	-2 letters: aweless, awnless, deewans, dewless, endless, sendals, waeness, weasels, wedelns, wessand.
	-3 letters: aneled, aneles, awless, deewan, dewans, easels, elands, ladens, leaden, leaned, leased, leases, lensed, lenses, lessen, naleds, newels, sealed, sedans, seesaw, sendal, sensed, sewans, slewed, snawed, swales, swedes, wandle, wealds, weaned, weasel, wedeln, wedels.
	-4 letters: aedes, anele, assed, awned, dales, dawen, dawns.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-n-s-s-w"
	+2 letters: newsdealers.
	+5 letters: cowardlinesses, newfangledness, towardlinesses.
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