Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A war declared or fought for a religious or high moral purpose, as to extend or defend a religion.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of the holy places.
- n. See under Holy.
Examples
“Noureddin and Saladin are ranked among the Mahometan saints; and the constant meditation of the holy war appears to have shed a serious and sober color over their lives and actions.”
“The Pope would call for holy war and the Christian kings of Europe would respond, led, no doubt, by perfidious Spain.”
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“Indoctrinating his eight-year-old boy to believe that holy war is what gives meaning to his young life says much about how the al-Qaeda leader views the world.”
“The depth of feeling that burns inside bin Laden about his holy war could be seen during the January 10, 2001, wedding ceremony of his son Muhammad, where one of his youngest sons, then aged eight, made a short speech captured on video in which he declaimed, I stand for a jihad against the infidels today and shall do so until eternity.”
“In the sixty-eighth year of his age, his martial spirit urged him to embark in person for a holy war against the Saracens of Sicily; he was prevented by death, and Basil, surnamed the Slayer of the”
“The true Cause, the holy war against the rapacious despoilers of multiple environments, against the polluters and DNAnarchists.”
“But the principal source of his fame and riches was the holy war which he waged against the Gentoos of Hindostan.”
“My fleet numbered fifty merchantmen, and as many yachts for pleasance, and an hundred and fifty sail ready fitted for holy war with the Unbelievers.”
“The Commander of the Faithful, Omar bin al-Khattáb (whom Allah accept!), once levied for holy war an army of Moslems, to encounter the foe before Damascus, and they laid close siege to one of the”
“Azzam remembers that Zarqawi, then in his mid twenties, was a “street guy” with a long rap sheet, a brawler quick with a knife and a propensity for drink, who had come to fight in the holy war because he had “finally decided to return to Allah.””
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