Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries;
characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil);
was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition;
[syn: Albigensianism, Catharism]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Albigensianism
n 1: a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant
of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th
centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the
coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good
and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the
Inquisition [syn: Albigensianism, Catharism]