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Martyr   /mˈɑrtər/   Listen
Martyr

noun
1.
One who suffers for the sake of principle.  Synonym: sufferer.
2.
One who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion.
verb
(past & past part. martyred; pres. part. martyring)
1.
Kill as a martyr.
2.
Torture and torment like a martyr.  Synonyms: martyrise, martyrize.



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"Martyr" Quotes from Famous Books



... flamed up, and she uttered a half-choked exclamation. "Oh," she cried—"you've fallen in love with playing the martyr; it's SELF-love! You SEE yourself in the role! No one on earth could make me believe you're in LOVE with this degraded imbecile—all that's left of the wreck of a vicious life! It isn't that! It's because you ...
— The Guest of Quesnay • Booth Tarkington
... Harley. "You grieve, and nobly. But you have shunned the worst and most vulgar deceit in civilized life; you have not simulated love. Better that yon poor lady should be, awhile, the sufferer from a harsh truth, than the eternal martyr of a flattering lie! Alas, my Leonard! with the love of the poet's dream are linked only the Graces; with the love of the human ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... of the hero or martyr who defies his tribe for the sake of what he thinks the truth or the right can easily be thought out on these lines. He defies this false temporary Cosmos in loyalty to the true ...
— Five Stages of Greek Religion • Gilbert Murray
... of hostilities the then noble President, who had carried the country so far through its perils, fell a martyr to his patriotism at the ...
— State of the Union Addresses of Ulysses S. Grant • Ulysses S. Grant
... witness at last As a martyr to truth. Did his life do the same in the past From the ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris


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