Cathar is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Cathar in a sentence
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Cathar meaning
A member of certain so self-styled Novatian and other medieval Christian sects embracing a form of dualism and extraordinary practices purportedly adhering to Mary Magdalene's teachings, persecuted by Roman Catholics as heretics.
Using Cathar
- The main meaning on this page is: A member of certain so self-styled Novatian and other medieval Christian sects embracing a form of dualism and extraordinary practices purportedly adhering to Mary Magdalene's teachings, persecuted by Roman Catholics as heretics.
- In the example corpus, cathar often appears in combinations such as: the cathar.
Context around Cathar
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 9 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cathar
- In this selection, "cathar" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, promoted, term, convinced, region, boyle and phenomenon stand out and add context to how "cathar" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a common cathar practice sfn and a post cathar era. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cathar" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cathar
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Cathar Boyle from Australia, who visited with her child, was eager to taste the local cuisine. (16 words)
At first Innocent tried peaceful conversion, and sent a number of legates into the Cathar regions. (16 words)
The area most affected by this expansion was southern France where the Cathar heresy had been strongest. (17 words)
Other than at such moments of extremis, little evidence exists to suggest this was a common Cathar practice.sfn The Cathars also refused the Catholic Sacrament of the eucharist saying that it could not possibly be the body of Christ. (40 words)
While some scholars in the middle of the 20th century tried to assume an influence between the Cathar "gnostics" and the origins of the Kabbalah, this assumption has proved to be an incorrect generalization not substantiated by any original texts. (40 words)
The murder of Pierre de Castelnau — Innocent's legate — in 1208, by unknown assailants commonly believed to be friends of Count Raymond of Toulouse (who was not a Cathar), caused Innocent to change his methods from words to weapons. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
It is widely held in the Cathar region to this day that the escapees took with them le trésor cathar.
Cathar Boyle from Australia, who visited with her child, was eager to taste the local cuisine.
He lived in France for 20 years, making a study of the Cathar phenomenon, before returning to South Africa in 2009.
Actually, most of the promoted Cathar castles were not built by Cathars but by local lords and later many of them were rebuilt and extended for strategic purposes.
Any use of the term "Cathar" to refer to people after the suppression of Catharism in the 14th century is a cultural or ancestral reference, and has no religious implication.
As the Languedoc was supposedly teeming with Cathars and Cathar sympathisers, this made the region a target for northern French noblemen looking to acquire new fiefs.
At first Innocent tried peaceful conversion, and sent a number of legates into the Cathar regions.
Conclusions about Cathar ideology continue to be fiercely debated with commentators regularly accusing their opponents of speculation, distortion and bias.
Denis de Rougemont (1956), Love in the Western World: Describing the ideal of chast love influenced by the Cathar doctrines Arne Hoffmann: In Leder gebunden.
He concluded that only preachers who displayed real sanctity, humility and asceticism could win over convinced Cathar believers.
Her vital role as a teacher contributed to the Cathar belief that women could serve as spiritual leaders.
In 1076 Pope Gregory VII excommunicated the residents of Cambrai because a mob had seized and burned a Cathar determined by the bishop to have been a heretic.
Legacy The inquisitions in combination with the brutal Albigensian Crusade were very successful in eliminating the Cathar movement.
Other than at such moments of extremis, little evidence exists to suggest this was a common Cathar practice.sfn The Cathars also refused the Catholic Sacrament of the eucharist saying that it could not possibly be the body of Christ.
The Albigensian Crusade, which led to the slaughter of approximately 20,000 citation men, women and children, Cathar and Catholic alike and brought the region firmly under the control of the king of France.
The area most affected by this expansion was southern France where the Cathar heresy had been strongest.
The leader of a Cathar revival in the Pyrenean foothills, Peire Autier was captured and executed in April 1310 in Toulouse.sfnsfn After 1330, the records of the Inquisition contain very few proceedings against Cathars.
The murder of Pierre de Castelnau — Innocent's legate — in 1208, by unknown assailants commonly believed to be friends of Count Raymond of Toulouse (who was not a Cathar), caused Innocent to change his methods from words to weapons.
They were for several hundred years frontier fortresses belonging to the French crown and most of what is still there dates from a post-Cathar era.
While some scholars in the middle of the 20th century tried to assume an influence between the Cathar "gnostics" and the origins of the Kabbalah, this assumption has proved to be an incorrect generalization not substantiated by any original texts.
Common combinations with cathar
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: