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Cathars
see synonyms of catharsNoun
1. albigenses, cathari, cathars
a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism
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Cathars
see synonyms of catharsnoun plural -ars, -ari (-ərɪ) or -arists
a member of a Christian sect in Provence in the 12th and 13th centuries who believed the material world was evil and only the spiritual was good
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Cathars
see synonyms of catharsn. pl. Cath·a·ri (-ə-rī′) or Cath·ars
A member of a Christian sect flourishing in western Europe in the 1100s and 1200s, whose dualistic belief, embracing asceticism and identifying the world as the creation of a satanic Demiurge, was condemned by the Church as heretical.
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