Holy Wars
are to extirpate “heresy,” or to extend what the state supposes to be the one true religion. The Crusades, the Thirty-Yearsʹ War, the wars against the Albigenses, etc., were so called.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.