martyrdom
martyrdom
Definition
mar·tyr·dom (-dəm)
martyrdom
Synonyms
martyrdom
n.
martyrdom
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- commemorate: The Becket window, in the Lucy Chapel of the Cathedral commemorates the martyrdom of Thomas of Canterbury.
- suffer: He suffered martyrdom about the year 155 by being burnt to death in the city stadium.
- endure: For upwards of three years I have endured a perfect martyrdom.
- seek: In her childhood she had sought martyrdom for the sake of reward.
- face: There are those who would face martyrdom for it.
- mean: I shall point out, yet again, that this does not mean martyrdom.
Preposition: at
- hand: He suffered martyrdom at the hands of his enemies in 1623.
Adjective modifier
- glorious: Go on, the dagger's point may glare Amid thy pathway's gloom; The fate which sternly threatens there Is glorious martyrdom!
- own: Ignatius ' Letter to the Romans ( 105 - 115 CE ) This letter compares Ignatius ' own upcoming martyrdom to that of Jesus.
- heroic: And a promise to the Catholic girls of a heroic martyrdom in defense of our religion, besieged by evil forces.
- long: I have had to suffer my long martyrdom, Without complaining, without sighs.
Modifies a noun
- operation: Further reading on the Islamic ' martyrdom operations ' : Suicide bombers?
- video: One even stops in the middle of his martyrdom video to remind his mother about shopping lists.
Possessives
- polycarp: So did Polycarp's martyrdom really follow the detailed story of Jesus so closely?
Preposition: of
- polycarp: Among such letters surviving is one about the martyrdom of Polycarp in 167 AD.
- saint: The theme for the Steeple Aston cope is the martyrdom of the saints.
- man: A number of scholars contend that Luke presents Jesus' passion as the martyrdom of a just man 10.
- apostle: The Martyrs Just how good is the evidence for the martyrdom of the apostles?
- priest: A brief history of the glorious martyrdom of twelve reverend priests; Father Edmund Campion and his companions.
martyrdom Quotes
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
Martyrdomthe only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
Were the happiness of the next world as closely apprehended as the felicities of this, it were a martyrdom to live.
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