All 11 Uses
martyr
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The Fountainhead
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- 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 1.4martyr = someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles
- 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 2.5martyrs = dies or suffers due to upholding principle; or people who have suffered such a fate
- 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 2.9martyr = someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles
- She took little interest in Helen; there was no martyrdom in loving Helen.†
Chpt 2.9martyrdom = the death or suffering of someone due to upholding principles
- So what is the use of being a martyr to the impossible?†
Chpt 2.12martyr = someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles
- 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 3.8martyred = killed or suffered due to holding to principles
- 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
Definitions:
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(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)