All 5 Uses of
crusade
in
Angels & Demons
- Today he was fighting their battle, he was fighting the same enemy they had fought for ages, as far back as the eleventh century …. when the enemy's crusading armies had first pillaged his land, raping and killing his people, declaring them unclean, defiling their temples and gods.†
Chpt 5 (definition 1) *
- Although they also wore the blue and gold uniform, each wielded the traditional "Vatican long sword"-an eight-foot spear with a razor-sharp scythe-rumored to have decapitated countless Muslims while defending the Christian crusaders in the fifteenth century.†
Chpt 35-36 (definition 1)
- You proved that long ago …. the inquisition, the torture of the Knights Templar, the Crusades.†
Chpt 41-42 (definition 2) *
- "Everything in this vault," Langdon said, feeling more confident now, "centuries of material, has to do with the Crusades.†
Chpt 49-50 (definition 2)
- "Your final hour," he said aloud, picturing the thousands of Muslims slaughtered during the Crusades.†
Chpt 97-98 (definition 2)
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