crusade vs expedition

crusade

noun
  • A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause. 

  • Any of the Papally-endorsed military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Latin Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims, as well as expeditions along the Baltic Sea and against the Cathars. 

  • Any war instigated and blessed by the Church for alleged religious ends, (especially) papal-sanctioned military campaigns against infidels or heretics. 

verb
  • To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause. 

  • To go on a military crusade. 

expedition

noun
  • A trip, especially a long one, made by a person or a group of people for a specific purpose 

  • An important or long journey, for example a march or a voyage 

  • The group of people making such excursion. 

  • A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory. 

  • The process or activities of performing expediter tasks. 

verb
  • To take part in a trip or expedition; to travel. 

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