All 4 Uses

martyr
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The Mill on the Floss
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The suffering, whether of martyr or victim, which belongs to every historical advance of mankind, is represented in this way in every town, and by hundreds of obscure hearths; and we need not shrink from this comparison of small things with great; for does not science tell us that its highest striving is after the ascertainment of a unity which shall bind the smallest things with the greatest?†
Chpt 4.1

martyr = someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.†
Chpt 4.3 *

martyrs = dies or suffers due to upholding principle; or people who have suffered such a fate
She knew little of saints and martyrs, and had gathered, as a general result of her teaching, that they were a temporary provision against the spread of Catholicism, and had all died at Smithfield.†
Chpt 4.3
That is the path we all like when we set out on our abandonment of egoism,—the path of martyrdom and endurance, where the palm-branches grow, rather than the steep highway of tolerance, just allowance, and self-blame, where there are no leafy honors to be gathered and worn.†
Chpt 4.3

martyrdom = the death or suffering of someone due to upholding principles

Definitions:

(1) (martyr)
someone who is killed or made to suffer greatly for their beliefs, often unjustly; or someone who acts as if they suffer a lot; or to make someone into such a person
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)