crusading
adjective
[ kruːˈseɪdɪŋ ]
• vigorously campaigning on a social or political issue.
• "a crusading investigative journalist who exposed atrocities"
crusade
verb
• lead or take part in a vigorous campaign for social, political, or religious change.
• "he crusaded against gambling in the 1950s"
Similar:
campaign,
fight,
do battle,
battle,
take up arms,
take up the cudgels,
work,
push,
press,
strive,
struggle,
agitate,
lobby,
champion,
promote,
Origin:
late 16th century (originally as croisade ): from French croisade, an alteration (influenced by Spanish cruzado ) of earlier croisée, literally ‘the state of being marked with the cross’, based on Latin crux, cruc- ‘cross’; in the 17th century the form crusado, from Spanish cruzado, was introduced. The blending of these two forms led to the current spelling, first recorded in the early 18th century.
