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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
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someone who suffers a great deal
or:
someone who suffers a great deal
- Claire had her nose in a book constantly, and recently, her Joan of Arc fascination had bloomed into all things martyred.
There are no more uses of "martyr" in Change of Heart by Picoult.
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