Rallying-point definition

A cause, symbol, or a place that may unite a fragmented group or persons opposing each over in other matters.
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(military) A designated area for troops to concentrate upon; a sign marking such area.
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Noun

Singular:
rallying-point
Plural:
rallying points

Rallying-point Sentence Examples

  • In battle the carroccio was surrounded by the bravest warriors in the army and it served both as a rallying-point and as the palladium of the city's honour; its capture by the enemy was regarded as an irretrievable defeat and humiliation.

  • Three separate capitals must be discriminated Pavia, the seat of the new Lombard kingdom; Ravenna, the garrison city of the Byzantine emperor; and Rome, the rallying point of the old nation, where the successor of St Peter was already beginning to assume that national protectorate which proved so influential in the future.

  • A huge car drawn by oxen, bearing the standard of the burgh, and carrying an altar with the host, this carroccio, like the ark of the Israelites, formed a rallying point in battle, and reminded the armed artisans that they had a city and a church to fight for.

  • The blunders of the government were open to a united attack, andMr Chamberlain's tariff-reform movement in 1903 provided a new rallying point in defence of the existing fiscal system.

  • The royal kraal was again destroyed and Ulundi ceased to be a rallying point.

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