crusades
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Definitions ofcrusades
- Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
Example: "During the crusades, many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered."
- Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends. Especially, papal sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
- A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
Example: "a crusade against drug abuse"
- A mass gathering in a political campaign or during a religious revival effort.
- A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
- To go on a military crusade.
- To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
Example: "He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life."
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