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What is a call to arms?

What is a call to arms? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An appeal to fight or to engage in conflict.
  2. (figuratively) An appeal to undertake a particular course of action or to support a specific cause.
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When she wrote her book, she set out to document something, and yet it has been received as a call to arms by those who were ready for one.
The president masterfully manipulated the news so that skeptics would ultimately support his call to arms.
Patriotism is a call to arms to defend yourself against someone else because they do not think like you.
It wasn't the wordless lyrics of death of the wraith, but it was very close, and Jeremy had the sickening feeling that it was a call to arms.
That is the only way one can deal with Whiggery, and I implore all decent-thinking, true Americans to heed my urgent call to arms!
These were the first soldiers ever to have been enlisted at the call to arms and by a United States Government.

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