crusade
noun
Often Crusade any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries for the recovery of the Holy Land from the Muslims.
was crusading
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past progressiveof crusade.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Jim Davidson was crusading against comic injustice way back in the 1980s.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 3, 2019
Katon Dawson, former chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, said that as a candidate, Haley was crusading “against the good old boys.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 28, 2015
At the time, Pound was crusading for a purer, more representational literature he called Imagism.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2014
Later young Ilka was transferred to a secular school where her popularity depended on whether or not her mother, Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue, was "crusading against fashions for the young."
From Time Magazine Archive
There could be nothing done for Russian serfs while their sovereign was crusading it for the benefit of the Bourbons in particular and of legitimacy in general.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
