rallying-point love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A place, person, or thing at or about which persons rally, or come together for action.

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Examples

  • Hougomont injured, La Haie – Sainte taken, there now existed but one rallying-point, the centre.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • As we have already said, Corinthe was the meeting-place if not the rallying-point, of Courfeyrac and his friends.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • As a result, they were unable to reach the symbol Uhuru Park rallying-point.

    Three Days of Protests Planned In Kenya 2008

  • I continue to hope that the discussion of the Covenant before, during and beyond Lambeth will give us a positive rallying-point.

    The Archbishop's Advent Letter to Primates 2007

  • The nucleus of strength first gained becomes a rallying-point, round which the rest of the world will gladly congregate.

    Hellenica 2007

  • But if they had begun with us while the power of the allies was still intact, and we might have afforded a rallying-point, they would not so easily have mastered them.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • I continue to hope that the discussion of the Covenant before, during and beyond Lambeth will give us a positive rallying-point.

    The Archbishop's Advent Letter to Primates 2007

  • As Comte says, it furnished a provisional rallying-point for efforts the most divergent, without requiring the sacrifice of any points of essential independence, in such a way to secure for a body of incoherent speculation an external look of system.

    Voltaire 2007

  • “Ah, mademoiselle, the rostrum is today the greatest theatre of the world; it has succeeded the tournaments of chivalry, it is now the meeting-place for all intellects, just as the army has been the rallying-point of courage.”

    Modeste Mignon 2007

  • The blow was not altogether unexpected, for Mr. Arundell had been ill for some time; but it was none the less severe, for she had always been devotedly attached to her father, and his house had been made a rallying-point for them when they were wont to return home.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

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