NOUN
- a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century
How To Use Vaudois In A Sentence
- The country of the Vaudois is the material basis of their history; and the sublime points of their scenery join in, as it were, with the sublime passages of their nation. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge
- Geneva, and those poor Vaudois shepherd-saints, whose bones for generations past Westward Ho!
- Vaudois," they said, "until now you have been the last; to-day justice must be done you, and you shall walk at our head! The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys
- Albigenses, and the cruel Piedmontese with the Vaudois, that they turn to bloody Rome; the Pope will no doubt welcome them, for the Lavengro
- Vaudois in the twelfth, and that of the Albigenses in the thirteenth century. A Philosophical Dictionary
- Cathari, Poor Men of Lyons, Lombards, Albigenses, Waldenses, Vaudois, etc. The name Waldenses and Albigenses have frequently been loosely applied to all the bands of people that passed under various titles in different countries and that opposed the doctrines and ecclesiastical tyranny of Rome. The Revelation Explained
- The external guarantees that formerly enabled the Vaudois to survive had largely collapsed.
- So with regard to the idea that Vaudois comes from Vaudes, a sorcerer, it would be more correct to say that the term sorcerer was one applied by the inhabitants of the plains to those who were Vaudois, or hill-men, under the notion that the inhabitants of such localities practised sorcery. The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys
- Last year I reported on James Murray's letter of application to the British Museum Library, which did not get the future editor of the OED a job despite his acquaintance with the Romance tongues, Italian, French, Catalan, Spanish, Latin & in a lesser degree Portuguese, Vaudois, Provencal, & various dialects... Languagehat.com: GOTHIC REQUIRED.
- The move was inspired by the Helvetic Committee in Paris, a revolutionary group headed by Frédéric-César de La Harpe, (17541838), a Vaudois whose great aim was the liberation of his homeland from the hated Bernese aristocracy, and by Peter Ochs of Basel, who drafted the Helvetic constitution and submitted it to the directory. 1798, Jan. 23
