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Definition of Crusading

1. a. Of or pertaining to a crusade; as, a crusading spirit.

Definition of Crusading

1. Verb. (present participle of crusade) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Crusading

1. crusade [v] - See also: crusade

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crusading

Literary usage of Crusading

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The real crusading armies set out in 1096. They comprised the men of Lorraine under ... The kingdom drew strength from the influx of new crusading forces, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1896)
"But he hurried on his crusading preparations. ... Meanwhile Gregory IX renewed his quarrel with Frederick II, and wished to defer all crusading ..."

3. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1881)
"The crusading States. comparison The Sicilian kingdom has much in common with Sicily and the states formed by the crusaders in Asia and Eastern the ..."

4. A Short History of Mediaeval Peoples: From the Dawn of the Christian Era to by Robinson Souttar (1907)
"THE END OF crusading. THERE was a time when the fall of Jerusalem would have ... If self-devotion alone could have qualified a man to lead a crusading army ..."

5. The Crusaders in the East: A Brief History of the Wars of Islam with the by William Barron Stevenson (1907)
"AT every stage in the history of the crusading colonies their very existence ... The crusading spirit of the west was not extinguished, nor for a time ..."

6. The History of the Crusades for the Recovery and Possession of the Holy Land by Charles Mills (1822)
"EXTINCTION OF THE crusading ... of the crusading spirit King Henri/ IV. of England Harry Monmouth Fate of the military orders The ..."

7. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Ernest Alfred Benians (1903)
"One of its chief sources was the wealth of the crusading Orders, at once military and religious, which had long neglected the vows of poverty and obedience, ..."

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