Definition of martyr

"martyr" in the noun sense

1. martyr, sufferer

one who suffers for the sake of principle

2. martyr

one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty for refusing to renounce their religion

"martyr" in the verb sense

1. martyr

kill as a martyr

"Saint Sebastian was martyred"

2. martyr, martyrize, martyrise

torture and torment like a martyr

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Quotations for martyr

Is not every true lover a martyr? [ Hare ]

He that will not live a saint can never die a martyr. [ Proverb ]

Who perishes in needless dangers is the devil's martyr. [ Proverb ]

He can never be God's martyr that is the devil's servant. [ Proverb ]

It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr. [ Napoleon I ]

It is not the suffering, but the cause and the patience that makes a martyr. [ Proverb ]

Men are prostrated by misfortune; women bend, but do not break, and martyr-like live on. [ Anna Cora Mowatt ]

A thorough miser must possess considerable strength of character to bear the self-denial imposed by his penuriousness. Equal sacrifices, endured voluntarily in a better cause, would make a saint or a martyr. [ W. B. Clulow ]

Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children, and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it. [ Colton ]

How often a new affection makes a new man! The sordid, cowering soul turns heroic. The frivolous girl becomes the steadfast martyr of patience and ministration, transfigured by deathless love. The career of bounding impulses turns into an anthem of sacred deeds. [ Chapin ]

martyr in Scrabble®

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Scrabble® Letter Score: 11

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters martyr:

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Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 11

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Words within the letters of martyr

2 letter words in martyr (8 words)

3 letter words in martyr (13 words)

4 letter words in martyr (5 words)

5 letter words in martyr (2 words)

6 letter words in martyr (1 word)

martyr + 1 blank (2 words)

Word Growth involving martyr

Shorter words in martyr

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Longer words containing martyr

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