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What is the noun for crusading?

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crusade
  1. Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
  2. Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends. Especially, papal sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics.
  3. (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
  4. (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “A civil servant has vowed to carry on her crusade against crime despite becoming the victim of a hate campaign.”
      “His personal crusade to acquire the continental possessions of the English kings had drained his treasury.”
      “He was about to lead a bloodthirsty crusade in an attempt to convert Eastbourne to Methodism, when I put a microphone in his hand and taught him to tap-dance.”
crusado
  1. Obsolete spelling of cruzado
  2. Crusade
  3. Examples:
    1. “So you agree with me, and don't think that the crusado from Russia will recover the Holy Land!”
      “I do not approve of this wholesale going to work, this impertinent crusado, or bellum ad exterminationem, proclaimed against a species.”
crusaderism
  1. The practice of crusading or the state of being a crusader.
crusader
  1. A person engaged in a crusade.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “What mystifies a modern historian is how a corrupt man could suddenly become honest and also become a crusader against corruption.”
      “To the strains of an ancient crusader hymn, the princes of the church led the pontiff into the square.”
      “But when his audience is less religious, he suddenly turns into a pro-abortion crusader.”
crusaders
  1. plural of crusader
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The man who went on about the need for love found himself backing crusaders all the way to the Holy Land.”
      “In the event of the crusaders proving hostile, the Emperor hardly had the means of resistance.”
      “Sachs and other like-minded crusaders have put public health back on the map, leading to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.”
crusades
crusados
  1. plural of crusado
crusadoes
  1. plural of crusado
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