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💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Cathar"

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Word	Definition
perfect	Without fault or mistake; without flaw, of supreme quality.
albanensesnoun	(historical) A Cathar sect of absolute dualists in Italy in the 12th and 13th centuries.
marianitenoun	(Christianity, historical) A member of an ancient sect that regarded the Virgin Mary as divine.
antidicomariannoun	(historical, Christianity) A member of a Christian sect, active from the 3rd to the 5th century, who refused to accord any special status to Mary, mother of Jesus, and rejected the doctrine of her perpetual virginity.
novatianismnoun	(historical, Christianity) A rigorist Christian sect that opposed re-admitting baptised Christians who had previously renounced their faith under persecution and by extension all those who had committed a mortal sin, founded by the priest and antipope Novatian in the third century.
mariolaternoun	(Protestantism, derogatory, religious slur) One who worships the Virgin Mary.
collyridianismnoun	(Christianity, historical) An alleged Early Christian heretical movement in Arabia whose adherents apparently worshipped the Virgin Mary as a goddess.
carpocratiannoun	A member of an ancient Gnostic sect founded by Carpocrates.
novatiannoun	A Roman priest, who became an antipope against St. Cornelius in 251 AD, considered by the Catholic Church to be a schismatic heresiarch as founder of a Christian sect known as Novatianism.
capernaitenoun	(Christianity, derogatory, archaic) A believer in transubstantiation.
cathedralismnoun	(Christianity) The cathedral system.
canossiannoun	a member of one of the religious orders that traces its origin to St. Magdalene of Canossa
parthenolatrynoun	The worship of virgins, or of the Virgin Mary.
naassenenoun	(historical) A member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect who claimed to have been taught their doctrines by Mariamne, a disciple of James the Just
catholiconnoun	(medicine) A supposed universal remedy.
albigensesnoun	(historical, Christianity) A sect of reformers opposed to the Roman Catholic Church in the 12th century AD, considered heretics who were subject to the Albigensian Crusade; a branch of the Catharists, distinct from the Waldenses.
basilideannoun	Of or relating to the Gnostic sect founded by Basilides of Alexandria.
carthusianismnoun	The religious beliefs of the Carthusians.
nicolaitannoun	A member of an early Christian sect (Nicolaism), said to participate in certain pagan ceremonies.
old catholicnoun	A member of an Old Catholic church.