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
Edward I. was stabbed by a Mussulman when he was crusading in the East,—and we had almost said that he was rightly served; for what business had he in that remote part of the world?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
