catharism

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catharism - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Catharism
      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]