Vaudois vs sect

Vaudois and sect both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Vaudois	Yes	No	No	No
sect	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sect is a hypernym of Vaudois; that is, sect is a word with a broader meaning than Vaudois:

Vaudois: a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century
sect: a subdivision of a larger religious group

Other hypernyms of Vaudois include religious order, religious sect.

Vaudois (noun)	sect (noun)
a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century	a dissenting clique
	a subdivision of a larger religious group