[-ING1.] The action of the verb CRUSADE. Also attrib., passing into adj.
1732. [see CRUSADE v.].
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev. (1872), III. I. i. 10. Not since our Albigenses and Crusadings were over.
1855. Milman, Lat. Chr. (1864), IX. XIV. V. 197. The Provençal poetry of the South, the cradle of modern song, contains some noble bursts of the Crusading religious sentiment.
1879. W. H. Dixon, Royal Windsor, II. v. 50. One of those unfortunate captives of crusading wars.
