Relating to or characteristic of the Cathars or their beliefs in spiritual purity and rejection of the material world.
From catharist + -ic (adjective suffix), maintaining the Greek root katharos (pure). This adjective form emerged to describe practices, beliefs, and doctrines associated with the Cathar movement.
Catharistic beliefs spread so effectively through trade networks that entire cities in southern France were predominantly Cathar—the religious establishment saw this as such a threat that it triggered one of the first major inquisitions in history.
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