聖戦

Pronunciation

• On’yomi: Kan’on
  • (Tokyo) せーせん [sèéséń] (Heiban – [0])
  • IPA^(key): [se̞ːsẽ̞ɴ]
  • Homophones: 井泉, 正戦, 生鮮, 西遷, 成選, 征戦, 性腺, 政戦, 省銭, 清泉, 聖遷, 精銭, 精選, 製銑

Noun

聖戦 (hiragana せいせん, rōmaji seisen)

1. a holy war
   • 1999 September 16, Katou, Motohiro, “ヤコブの階たい段だん [Jacob’s Stairway]”, in Ｑ.Ｅ.Ｄ. 証しょう明めい終しゅう了りょう [Q.E.D. Quod Erat Demonstrandum], volume 4 (fiction, in Japanese), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN, pages 183–184:

     〝聖 (せい)戦 (せん)〟だったんだな　クランのトップセルは最 (さい)適 (てき)な繁 (はん)殖 (しょく)地 (ち)を求 (もと)め‥‥戦 (たたか)いを始 (はじ)めた

     "Seisen" dattan da na Kuran no toppu seru wa saiteki na hanshokuchi o motome‥‥ tatakai o hajimeta

     It was like a "holy war", huh? The top cell of the Clans was searching for the optimal breeding ground‥‥ and it provoked conflicts in the process

     あれはただの戦 (せん)争 (そう)だったんじゃない‥‥「約 (やく)束 (そく)の地 (ち)」を求 (もと)めた聖 (せい)戦 (せん)だったのさ

     Are wa tada no sensō dattan ja nai‥‥ “Yakusoku no Chi” o motometa seisen datta no sa

     It was sort of like a war‥‥ a holy war for the “Promised Land”