Crusade meaning

Noun: crusade

Pronunciation: (kroo’seyd)

Crusade meaning:

• A series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end
• Any of the continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe tried to recapture the Holy Land from the Muslims.
• A vigorous campaign for political, social or religious change.

Synonyms: juggernaut, campaign, push, move, movement, effort, war, offensive, drive, blitz

Verb: crusade

Crusade meaning:

• Exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person.
• Fight a holy war or go on a crusade

Synonyms: fight, agitate, press

Quotations: Alistair Cooke – All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.

Benjamin Disraeli – It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.

Rob McDuff – After the last trial, the U.S. attorney said they knew they had problems with the evidence. This time, their case was so weak; the jury rejected it in less than an hour. That shows you this whole crusade was ill-advised from the beginning.

Becky Ritter – We talked about what would be fun and what would be worthwhile. We were thinking about maybe something like Habitat for Humanity. But everything was either out of our price range or beyond our time frame. Then one of the Campus Crusade members talked to us about either going to Panama City, Florida or New Orleans to help out with Katrina relief and we felt New Orleans would be worthwhile.

John Maginnis – He doesn’t seem like he’s really motivated the Democratic voter, gotten anyone’s juices up. He hasn’t led any crusade, and that’s what you’ve got to do if you’re running against an incumbent.

Sample sentences:

1. Right now we’re at the beginning of a huge crusade and we’re going need all the help we can get.
2. With dark crusade we have taken a very different and exciting route with the single player game, allowing the player to conquer the globe as any of the seven unique playable races.
3. This was a crusade for Rosie. They thought they were doing the best thing for her.
4. We’re not on a major crusade for change, but we’re here for awareness, to make suggestions.
5. This measure would reduce funding for classrooms and transportation, but this is no surprise, The Republicans have been on a crusade to limit public investments in things that will help people and communities.
6. Our position is not a moral crusade against gambling. It’s just about betting on basketball.
7. You ought to know what a crusade is. They started in Spain.
8. My crusade since I came here four years ago was to better understand where television is going and what television means to the next generation. Trace it back to its origins. Television wasn’t a box in a living room; it was technology to project an image from a distance.
9. I call you to this crusade, and my friends, this crusade, once we win here in Ohio, cannot be stopped, and I will win the presidency of the United States of America.
10. We did our job well and everyone knows it. By falsely claiming that we got it wrong, Rick Santorum is continuing his misguided crusade against the National Weather Service.