crusader

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Nevertheless, the crusader was alive again, at the notes of warlike preparations which now resounded throughout the land On the 25th of January he issued a proclamation, couched in three languages--French, German, and Flemish.

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  1. A person engaged in a crusade. The crusaders of the middle ages bore as a badge on the breast or the shoulder a representation of the cross, the assumption of which, called “taking the cross,” constituted a binding engagement and released them from all other obligations. If other pilgrims had their peculiar marks, so too had the crusader. For a token of that vow which he had plighted, he always wore a cross sewed to his dress, until he went to, and all the while he stayed in, the Holy Land. Rock, Church of our Fathers, III. i. 446. With all their faults these nobles [of Cyprus] were bona fide Crusaders; men who, like the first champions, were ready to cast in their lot in a Promised Land, and not, like the later adventurers, anxious merely to get all they could out of it, to make their fortunes. Stubbs, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 200.

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  • Doc Savage was probably more of a crusader, a Sir Galahad, than the others, because he had been trained from childhood by selected scientists--a startling upbringing for which his father was responsible--to follow a career of righting wrongs and punishing evildoers Long Tom's impulsiveness was his undoing; yet, of Doc and the five, he was probably the most conservative. —  111 - The Pirate Isle
  • Against actual slavery he was always a crusader, and for long years he contended against the recognition of it implied by the practice of restoring runaway slaves in Zanzibar. —  The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Vol. 2
  • He left it as a crusader, ready to fight for the cause. —  WOODROW WILSON AS I KNOW HIM
  • The chief crusader, as it were, is longtime Flipper trainer and vocal dolphin advocate Richard O'Barry, who spent a good portion of his life getting rich off of the captivity and subjugation of dolphins but now devotes his life to helping them live as free as possible. —  LAist
  • Thaksin will earn his place in history either as a crusader or an exploiter of democracy. —  The Nation - Breaking News
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