pl.n.
The members of a Catharist religious sect of southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries, exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition.
[Medieval Latin Albigēnsēs, pl. of Albigēnsis, inhabitant of Albiga, Albi, a town of southern France where the sect was dominant.]
Albigensian Al'bi·gen'sian (-shən, -sē-ən) adj. & n.Albigensianism Al'bi·gen'sian·ism n.
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