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Definition of 'martyr'Noun
( en-noun)
One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom.
- Saint Stephen was the first Christian martyr .
(by extension) One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause.
(with a prepositional phrase of cause) One who suffers greatly and/or constantly, even involuntarily.
- Stan is a martyr''' to arthritis, Chris a ' martyr to Stan's endless moaning about it.
* {{quote-book
|year=1937
|author=AJ Cronin
|title=The Citadel
|passage=He'd been a martyr to asthma all his life.}}
One who is killed or suffers greatly because of an identity or position, e.g., a young prince killed when his father, the king, is deposed for the purpose of preventing the restoration of the monarchy later.
Synonyms
* shaheed, shahid
Antonyms
* confessor
Derived terms
{{der3|martyr complex
|martyrdom
|martyress
|martyrial
|martyrish
|martyrizate
|martyrize
|martyrizer
|martyrly
|martyrolatry
|martyrless
|martyrship}}
Related terms
{{rel3|martyrdom
|martyrion
|martyrium
|martyrologe
|martyrologue
|martyrology
|martyry
|protomartyr}}
Verb
( en-verb)
To make someone into a martyr by putting him or her to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
To persecute.
- ''Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.
To torment; to torture.
- The lovely Amoret, whose gentle heart
- Thou martyrest with sorrow and with smart. — Spenser
Synonyms
* martyrize
Derived terms
* martyrer
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