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(also Crusade)Each of a series of medieval military expeditions made by Europeans to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries.‘the fanaticism engendered by the Crusades’‘in 1204 the armies of the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople’- ‘Medieval England was to gain a great deal from the Crusades.’
- ‘Saladin and Richard the Lionheart are two names that tend to dominate the Crusades.’
- ‘The first Crusade took three years to reach the Holy Land.’
- ‘Misconceptions about the Crusades are all too common.’
- ‘The Crusades weigh heavily on the Arab world as well.’
- ‘After the Mamluks took Jerusalem in 1244 AD, Louis announced his Crusade.’
- ‘The Crusade had been launched by Pope Urban II in 1095.’
- ‘The Sixth Crusade was led by Emperor Frederick II.’
- 1.1A war instigated for alleged religious ends.‘the Albigensian crusades’
- ‘Our holy wars, crusades, and pogroms have decimated people in the millions in the name of our religion.’
- ‘However, there has been little to compare to the crusades and religious wars in medieval and early-modern Europe.’
- ‘Therefore, the Civil War must be a religious crusade to regain the Almighty's favour.’
- ‘They're sort of fighting a battle for God, but a battle of prayer and ethics, and sort of moral crusades.’
- ‘We're returning to the bedrock values, the strong traditions of faith and family, not to mention the floggings, ritualistic humiliations and the religious crusades.’
- ‘Peak oil, global warming, pandemics and religious crusades are about to converge in a most unfortunate way.’
- ‘The Armada was not only a religious crusade - though the people of Spain interpreted it as being so.’
- ‘Before that, our ancestors backed empires and launched crusades.’
- ‘The cross has been carried at the head of crusades and pogroms, even as it was offered to the weak as a model of how they ought to accept their suffering.’
- ‘Wars in the name of political ambitions and crusades for fanatical religious faiths are all part of man's history to this day.’
holy warView synonyms
2A vigorous campaign for political, social, or religious change.
‘a crusade against crime’- ‘A civil servant has vowed to carry on her crusade against crime despite becoming the victim of a hate campaign.’
- ‘While urging the authorities to find more resources to fix up our schools, our political representatives ought to be leading the crusade against vandalism.’
- ‘The crusade against child obesity is likely to produce, not healthy outcomes, but miserable children and anxious parents and epidemics of dieting and eating disorders.’
- ‘Nonetheless, I'm somewhat sympathetic to their crusade against horrible animal living conditions.’
- ‘In this regard, he is not an armchair liberal, his crusade against hatred, neo-Nazism etc seems to be an integral part of his public identity.’
- ‘We all need to support the crusade against corruption.’
- ‘His crusade against greyness is in part a response to his experience of Czechoslovakia which, as a dual passport holder, he left for London in 1968.’
- ‘His crusade against the government apathy towards ex-soldiers and their families is continuing even at the age of 81.’
- ‘Schools across the country have joined the crusade against violence.’
- ‘His crusade against redundancy and overspending in government seemed fuelled by an overriding concern for the common good.’
- ‘The grandfather of a teenage boy who died after inhaling an aerosol is now committed to a life-saving crusade against solvent abuse.’
- ‘Town leaders are calling for a crusade against television programmes they claim are eroding moral values.’
- ‘After 1945, World War II was conceptualized here as a crusade against absolutism and intolerance.’
- ‘Our specialized insights and practices are crucial in the national crusade for health.’
- ‘In addition, more elaborate evangelism programs, such as the multi-day, outdoor crusades, are rarely held because of prompting from leaders in the church administration.’
- ‘Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, hundreds of thousands of people made ‘decisions’ for Christ at various evangelistic crusades and festivals.’
campaign, drive, push, move, movement, effort, struggleView synonyms
verb
[no object]often as adjective crusadingLead or take part in a vigorous campaign for social, political, or religious change.
‘a crusading stance on poverty’- ‘She said that, as somebody who has been crusading to get insurance premiums down for drivers under 25, she was appalled at such comments.’
- ‘He was a pioneer conservationist, crusading to save Georgian London from the developers and responsible for saving Carlton House Terrace.’
- ‘You're crusading against a lot of the violence that some of the other hip-hop artists celebrate.’
- ‘But it still strikes me as a bizarre issue to be crusading on behalf of.’
- ‘He was ridiculed and reviled, but this did not deter him for one second from crusading on behalf of society's outcasts.’
- ‘Why is it left to this small public company to be crusading in this area against the establishment?’
- ‘And, it seems, that for all his crusading on behalf of workers, he isn't the best boss to work for.’
- ‘Were my grandparents secretly crusading to end world hunger?’
- ‘And he is crusading to force brokers to reveal how they are paid to sell certain funds.’
- ‘The result was that Europe quickly lost its taste for crusading.’
- ‘Mostly, crusading politicians get frustrated and give up or learn the ropes and work within the existing system.’
- ‘Activist movements led by adult adoptees have crusaded against the ‘secrets and lies’ of confidential adoption.’
- ‘The newspaper crusaded against emancipation in the months leading up to the draft riots.’
- ‘He's devoted years of thought and action to foreign policy, and in decades past has courageously crusaded against national security corruption, including the CIA's connection to contra supporters involved with drug dealing.’
- ‘He has crusaded ceaselessly against welfare recipients, eventually gaining national renown by time-limiting their eligibility for support.’
- ‘Before the election, the local media successfully crusaded for change in government policy that would provide free antiretroviral treatment to the poor.’
- ‘He changed the position of the Catholic church on the death penalty, and he crusaded against the death penalty.’
- ‘He crusaded for free food stamps to combat hunger and malnutrition in children.’
- ‘True, they crusaded to take women out of politics, but they did so in order to open up other areas of public life to women.’
campaign, fight, do battle, battle, take up arms, take up the cudgels, work, push, press, strive, struggle, agitate, lobbyView synonyms
Origin
Late 16th century (originally as croisade): from French croisade, an alteration (influenced by Spanish cruzado) of earlier croisée, literally ‘the state of being marked with the cross’, based on Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’; in the 17th century the form crusado, from Spanish cruzado, was introduced. The blending of these two forms led to the current spelling, first recorded in the early 18th century.
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