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Definition
someone who suffers for the sake of principle — especially someone killed for refusing to renounce their religion
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someone who suffers a great deal
or:
someone who suffers a great deal
- I had not seen the Rev. Mr. Merrill climb—I suppose, shakily—to the stage; when I noticed him, he was standing beside the martyred Mary Magdalene.p. 420.8
- As vividly as any number of the stories in the Bible, Owen Meany showed us what a martyr was.p. 8.1
There are no more uses of "martyr" in A Prayer for Owen Meany.
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