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 *crusading = campaigning or working for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
- 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
Definitions:
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(1)
(crusade as in: a crusade against pollution) a long and determined effort for a cause that is passionately believed to be important
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(2)
(Crusades as in: First Crusade to Jerusalem) the more or less continuous military expeditions in the 11th to 13th centuries when Christian powers of Europe invaded Muslims in the Holy Land in the Middle East