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Vaudois

noun
1.
A Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century.  Synonym: Waldenses.





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... William Stephen Gilly, D.D., Vicar of Norham, author of Narrative of an Excursion to the Mountains of Piemont, 1823; Researches among the Vaudois or ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... Indies; secondly, to prevent the union of France and Spain in the person of the Duke of Anjou or his posterity; and, thirdly, to maintain the Protestant religion wherever it was established, including the Vaudois provinces. With these objects, William had exerted his utmost energies to form the grand alliance of England, Austria, and the States-general against France. To these were afterwards added some of ...
— John Deane of Nottingham - Historic Adventures by Land and Sea • W.H.G. Kingston


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