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Cath·ar    Audio Help   [kath-ahr] Pronunciation Key
–noun, plural -a·ri    Audio Help   [-uh-rahy] Pronunciation Key, -ars.
(in medieval Europe) a member of any of several rigorously ascetic Christian sects maintaining a dualistic theology.
Also called Cath·a·rist    Audio Help   [kath-er-ist] Pronunciation Key.

[Origin: 1630–40; < LL Catharī (pl.) < LGk hoi Katharoí Novatians, lit., the pure; applied in ML to various sects]

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Cath·a·rism, noun
Cath·a·ris·tic, adjective
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Cath·ar    Audio Help   (kāth'är)  Pronunciation Key 
n.   pl. Cath·a·ri (-ə-rī') or Cath·ars
A member of a Christian sect flourishing in western Europe in the 12th and 13th centuries that professed a dualistic belief emphasizing ascetic renunciation of the world and was condemned by the Church as heretical.


[French Cathare, from sing. of Medieval Latin Catharī, from Late Greek Katharoi, from pl. of Greek katharos, pure.]

Cath'ar adj., Cath'a·rism n., Cath'a·rist adj. & n.
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catharism

noun
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] 

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