jehad
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Himself a firebrand of the most dangerous nature, he had preached an anti-British jehad with all the force of his ecclesiastical rhetoric.
From On the Heels of De Wet by Lionel James
The city was simply swarming with budmashes, and it was said that the priests had begun to preach a jehad against the British raj.
From The Keeper of the Door by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell
I have heard them calling a jehad in the Sudan.
From The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath
We have laughed at the Holy War, the jehad that old Von der Goltz prophesied.
From Greenmantle by John Buchan
The Cabul Sirdars sided with the disaffected soldiery, and urged the Ameer to raise his banner for a jehad or religious war, a measure for which he had no nerve.
From The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80 by Archibald Forbes
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