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US
/kɹuˈseɪd/
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[ UK /kɹuːsˈeɪd/ ]
[ UK /kɹuːsˈeɪd/ ]
NOUN
- any of the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims
How To Use Crusade In A Sentence
- It brings prestige to Scotland on a shoestring, and a great deal is done by people for whom it's a crusade, not a job.
- Certainly observant Jews remember the crusaders as evil butchers, who on their way to Jerusalem, slaughtered and massacred many thousands of Jews and decimated entire Jewish communities such as Speyer, Worms and Mayencea and of course, when they arrived in Jerusalem, put the holy Jews of the city to the sword. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- They had already experienced discrimination in the army while fighting the "crusade for freedom". The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
- But the bourgeois and the coalitionist press represented this movement as a pogromist, counter-revolutionary affair, and, at the same time, as a Bolshevist crusade, the immediate object of which was to seize the reins of Government by the use of armed force against the Central Executive Committee. From October to Brest-Litovsk
- Well, I am afraid the crusade was rather a fizzer.
- Anthony Gould was said to be one of the most unpopular men in the prison because of a crusade against drug abuse.
- Will it remain perverted forever by what it†™ s become, or will the truth ring free and clear and the legend of the Crusader be born anew? Dynamite Entertainment titles for February 2010 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
- The princes of the West assumed the cross in order to appropriate to their own use the tithes which, for the defrayal of crusade expenses, they had levied upon the property of the clergy. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
- The Empire Crusade was designed to cause the maximum trouble for the Conservative leadership.
- He harnessed his new-found zeal to a crusade against vice. Times, Sunday Times