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Definition of Soldiers of God
1. Noun. An Islamic extremist group of Kurds who oppose secular control with bombings and assassinations; believed to have ties with al-Qaeda.
Category relationships: Act Of Terrorism, Terrorism, Terrorist Act
Generic synonyms: Foreign Terrorist Organization, Fto, Terrorist Group, Terrorist Organization
Geographical relationships: Kurdistan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soldiers Of God
Literary usage of Soldiers of God
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns: For Use in Praise Meetings by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"There is peace for all the singing soldiers of God in that Amen ! There is solace
for the disturbed foreboding mind in that Amen ! ..."
2. The history of the reign of the emperor Charles v by William Robertson (1819)
"describes the Crusaders as the chosen army of Christ, as the servants and soldiers
of God, as men who marched under the immediate protection of the Almighty ..."
3. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"... it was the military * Subsequently, from Origen onwards, upon the ascetics as
the real soldiers of God, and later still upon the monks. ..."
4. History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth by William Robertson, William Hickling Prescott (1857)
"He describes the crusaders as the chosen army of Christ, as the servants and
soldiers of God, as men who marched under the immediate protection of the ..."
5. The Oxford Reformers by Frederic Seebohm (1896)
"But priests are " soldiers of God." ' Their warfare truly is not carnal, but
spiritual: for ' our warfare is to pray, to read, and to meditate upon ' the ..."
6. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1890)
"Strengthened, as soldiers of God, with patient fortitude, they mocked at death
in all its forms ; at fire, and sword, and the torment of crucifixion ..."
7. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin, John Allen (1816)
"These are the spiritual " weapons, mighty through God to the pulling down of
strong holds," by which the faithful soldiers of God " cast down imaginations, ..."
8. The Oxford Reformers: John Colet, Erasmus, and Thomas More by Frederic Seebohm (1869)
"But priests are " soldiers of God." ' Their warfare truly is not carnal, but
spiritual: for * our warfare is to pray, to read, and to meditate upon ' the ..."
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