All 4 Uses of
crusade
in
Babbitt
- But the crusading passion of it made him so tobacco-hungry that he immediately recovered the key, walked with forbidding dignity to the file, took out a cigar and a match—"but only one match; if ole cigar goes out, it'll by golly have to stay out!"†
Chpt 4 *
- She was a crusader and, like every crusader, she exulted in the opportunity to be vicious in the name of virtue.†
Chpt 10
- She was a crusader and, like every crusader, she exulted in the opportunity to be vicious in the name of virtue.†
Chpt 10
- In his newspaper Escott had conducted a pure-food crusade against commission-houses.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(crusade as in: a crusade against pollution) a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important