The Collaborative International Dictionary
Waldensian
Waldensian \Wal*den"sian\, a. Of or pertaining to the Waldenses. -- n. One Holding the Waldensian doctrines.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Waldensian
c.1600, from Waldenses (plural), mid-15c., from Medieval Latin, apparently from Waldensis, a variant form of the surname of Peter Waldo, the preacher who originated the sect c.1170 in southern France. Excommunicated 1184, they eventually were swept into the Protestant revolt (16c.).
Usage examples of "waldensian".
The small industrial town of Zwickau had long been a hotbed of Waldensian heresy.
You speak as if the Fraticelli, Patarines, Waldensians, Catharists, and within these the Bogomils of Bulgaria and the heretics of Dragovitsa, were all the same thing!