All 11 Uses of
martyr
in
The Fountainhead
- Here you are, saying to yourself how grand old Cameron is, a noble fighter, a martyr to a lost cause, and you'd just love to die on the barricades with me and to eat in dime lunch-wagons with me for the rest of your life.†
Chpt 1.4
- Then he thought of the meeting, the great mass meeting where her uncle was publicly to make a martyr of himself tonight.†
Chpt 1.9 *
- "My friends," was his remark—the one to appear in all the papers—"I refuse to be an accomplice in the manufacturing of martyrs."†
Chpt 2.5
- It was difficult to punish Ellsworth under any circumstances, because of his fragile body and delicate health; besides, it seemed wrong to chastise a boy who had sacrificed himself to avenge injustice, and done it bravely, in the open, ignoring his own physical weakness; somehow, he looked like a martyr.†
Chpt 2.9
- She took little interest in Helen; there was no martyrdom in loving Helen.†
Chpt 2.9
- So what is the use of being a martyr to the impossible?†
Chpt 2.12
- So you people made a martyr out of me, after all.†
Chpt 2.13
- It's so graceless, being a martyr.†
Chpt 2.13
- Letting oneself be martyred by the kind of people we saw frolicking tonight.†
Chpt 3.8
- Mr. Caleb Bradley was martyred by the bad taste of his tenants.†
Chpt 4.1
- The Banner ran articles on man martyred by society: Socrates, Galileo, Pasteur, the thinkers, the scientists, a long, heroic line—each a man who stood alone, the man who defied men.†
Chpt 4.13
Definition:
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(martyr) someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles -- especially someone killed for refusing to renounce their religion, or someone who commits a suicide death in the name of their religion
or:
someone who suffers a great deal
or (as a verb):
to kill someone or make them suffer in a manner that many would view as unjust