All 6 Uses of
martyr
in
The House of the Seven Gables
- He was one of the martyrs to that terrible delusion, which should teach us, among its other morals, that the influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob.†
Chpt 1martyrs = dies or suffers due to upholding principle; or people who have suffered such a fate
- Amid the disorder of such various ruin, it is not strange that a man of inconsiderable note, like Maule, should have trodden the martyr's path to the hill of execution almost unremarked in the throng of his fellow sufferers.†
Chpt 1 *martyr = someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles
- Such a man should have nothing to do with sorrow; nothing with strife; nothing with the martyrdom which, in an infinite variety of shapes, awaits those who have the heart, and will, and conscience, to fight a battle with the world.†
Chpt 7martyrdom = the death or suffering of someone due to upholding principles
- To these heroic tempers, such martyrdom is the richest meed in the world's gift.†
Chpt 7
- He had no right to be a martyr; and, beholding him so fit to be happy and so feeble for all other purposes, a generous, strong, and noble spirit would, methinks, have been ready to sacrifice what little enjoyment it might have planned for itself,—it would have flung down the hopes, so paltry in its regard,—if thereby the wintry blasts of our rude sphere might come tempered to such a man.†
Chpt 7martyr = someone who dies or suffers to uphold principles
- Her father as it proved, had martyred his poor child to an inordinate desire for measuring his land by miles instead of acres.†
Chpt 13martyred = killed or suffered due to holding to principles
Definition:
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
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