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Definition of Rallying cry
1. Noun. A slogan used to rally support for a cause. "Our watchword will be `democracy'"
Generic synonyms: Catchword, Motto, Shibboleth, Slogan
2. Noun. A yell intended to rally a group of soldiers in battle.
Generic synonyms: Call, Cry, Outcry, Shout, Vociferation, Yell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rallying Cry
Literary usage of Rallying cry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... as a rallying cry against the English. The song, in part, reads thus translated:
Mother, hail! Thou with sweet springs flowing, Thou fair fruits ..."
2. The Lombard Communes: A History of the Republics of North Italy by William Francis Thomas Butler (1906)
"From this time forth, it is said, the name Waiblingen was used as the rallying
cry of the supporters of the Hohenstaufen, that of Welf became synonymous ..."
3. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony: Including Public Addresses, Her Own by Ida Husted Harper (1898)
"... rallying cry ever put on paper—first, to call women by the thousand to Chicago;
and second, to get every one who can not go there to send a postal card ..."
4. Fifty Years in the Making of Australian History by Henry Parkes (1892)
"DIBBS AGAIN PRIME MINISTER—GENERAL ELECTION—rallying cry OF THE NEW GOVERNMENT '
PROTECTION ' DEFEATED—FORMATION OF THE FIFTH PARKES MINISTRY—THE NOMINEE ..."
5. Reminiscences and Memorials of Men of the Revolution and Their Families by Artemas Bowers Muzzey (1882)
"The party which elected Andrew Jackson wrote this doctrine on their banners,
making the phrase " the will of the people" their rallying-cry ; and by'it his ..."
6. Annotations Upon Popular Hymns by Charles Seymour Robinson (1893)
"perienced in traveling over this earthly road to the Better Land that he wrote
the piece we quote as a rallying cry for his fellows. He died in 1822. ..."
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