0 present participle of crusade
1 to make an effort to achieve something that you believe in strongly:
She crusaded against sex and violence on television.
The establishment of these devolved committees with their 'crusading enthusiasm' was later praised officially as a triumph of organisation, devotion, and harmonious cooperation.
The act of crusading was itself partly penitential.
Francis may have seen himself as the crusading warrior knight, but he was hostage (literally and figuratively) to the march of political and dynastic interest.
It was in this region also where the crusading zeal of the democratic agenda of the victorious powers was most concentrated.
For these reasons, the labouring poor resented the crusading ethos.
He links the revival to developments in crusading studies.
At the same time one can identify something of a 'crusading spirit' that entailed asserting social, moral and political authority over the assisted people.
For understandable reasons, there has been an emphasis on such aspects as crusading warfare, the theology underpinning the crusades and the motives which made individuals become crusaders.
