holy league
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any one of several temporary alliances between Christian countries of (especially mediaeval) Europe, formed for some specific objective of ostensible benefit to Christianity.
Example Sentences
- "The initiative for a Holy League often came from a secular power, not the pope, but papal involvement was inevitable if it was to have the same spiritual benefits to participants as a crusade."
- "The third article contains an invitation to all other Powers, who shall find themselves disposed to avow these sacred principles, to join them in this Holy League."
- "Raymond de Cardona was immediately to lead his army into Lombardy, in order that he might have more influence on the distribution of the territories occupied by the Holy League, as well as to feed his army at the expense of that country, which Ferdinand assigned to them in place of pay."
- "Instead, Zaccharia urges them to fight the "infidel" Turks as he elaborates in another poem on the Holy League. This is the only way, he asserts, that the Holy League will receive the support of God, who will unleash his heavenly army and send "his Angel from the highest cloister to take bitter and hard revenge"; the only way "that the power and malicious anger of the dragon will be oppressed, which will generate his ultimate ruin.""