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Quest vs Crusade - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between quest and crusade

is that quest is a journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission while crusade is any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.

As verbs the difference between quest and crusade

is that quest is to seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job while crusade is to make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.

As an abbreviation QUEST

is quantized electronic structure.

As a proper noun Crusade is

one of a series of ostensibly religious campaigns by Christian forces from the 11th to the 13th century, mostly to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims who occupied it.

quest

English

(wikipedia quest)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • Cease your quest of love.
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  • The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
  • (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
  • * Herbert
    • Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
  • (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
  • (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
    • What lawful quest have given their verdict?

    Derived terms

    * sidequest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
  • To search for; to examine.
    • ----

    crusade

    English

    Alternative forms

    (medieval history) (Crusade)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the military expeditions undertaken by the Christians of Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries to reconquer the Levant from the Muslims.
    • During the crusades , many Muslims and Christians and Jews were slaughtered.
  • (figuratively) A grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
    • a crusade against drug abuse
  • (archaic) A Portuguese coin; a crusado.

    • Derived terms

    * crusader

    Related terms

    * cross * crucial * crucifer * crucify * crucifixion * excruciate * excruciation

    References

    * AskOxford.com

    See also

    * holy war * jihad * Miles Christi

    Verb

    (crusad)
  • To make a grand concerted effort toward some purportedly worthy cause.
    • He crusaded against similar injustices for the rest of his life.

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