Albigensianism

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Albigensianism
       n : 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: {Catharism}]