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Definition of "crusade" []
- Any of the military expeditions undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. (noun)
- A holy war undertaken with papal sanction. (noun)
- A vigorous concerted movement for a cause or against an abuse. See Synonyms at campaign. (noun)
- To engage in a crusade. (verb-intransitive)
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Use "crusade" in a sentence
- "In a letter written in 1954, Farber used the word crusade to describe their campaign against cancer."
- "The emotional drive behind the anti-chain crusade is an understandable mistrust of big corporations allied with the knee-jerk snobbery that is never far from the surface in American cultural life."
- "To know this and yet continue on the crusade is a logic of cowardice and extreme idiocy."
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