All 24 Uses of
martyr
in
The Power and the Glory by Graham Greene by Greene
- The martyrs.†
Chpt 1.2
- He told me he was more of a martyr than the rest.†
Chpt 1.2
- The mother went on reading: 'Did any premonition touch young Juan that night that he, too, in a few short years, would be numbered among the martyrs?†
Chpt 1.2
- 'They would have caught him if we hadn't, and then he would have been one of your martyrs.†
Chpt 1.2
- And they called that martyrdom.†
Chpt 1.2
- He began the prayer for the living: the long list of the Apostles and Martyrs fell like footsteps - Cornelii, Cypriani, Laurentii, Chrysogoni - soon the police would reach the clearing where his mule had sat down under him and he had washed in the pool.†
Chpt 2.1
- It may very well have cost the officer his life, if anybody had discovered the evasion- he didn't know; you went round making God knew what martyrs-in Concepcion or elsewhere - when you yourself were without grace enough to die.†
Chpt 2.1
- You'll be a martyr, won't you?†
Chpt 2.1
- What kind of a martyr do you think you'll be?†
Chpt 2.1
- That had never occurred to him - that anybody would consider him a martyr.†
Chpt 2.1
- These people are martyrs -protecting me with their own lives.†
Chpt 2.1
- They deserve a martyr to care for them - not a man like me, who loves all the wrong things.†
Chpt 2.1
- I don't want martyrs here.†
Chpt 2.2
- We have a martyr here…'†
Chpt 2.3
- He said, 'I don't think martyrs are like this.'†
Chpt 2.3
- He said,' Martyrs are holy men.†
Chpt 2.3
- He said, 'My children, you must never think the holy martyrs are like me.†
Chpt 2.3
- If it helped her faith to believe that he was a martyr ….†
Chpt 2.3
- He might just as well have let her go on thinking him a martyr.†
Chpt 2.3
- The lieutenant said in a tone of fury, 'Well, you're going to be a martyr - you've got that satisfaction.'†
Chpt 3.3
- Oh no. Martyrs are not like me.†
Chpt 3.3
- He had not slept at all, but had spent his last night preparing for martyrdom.†
Chpt 4
- One of the men there that day was so moved by his bearing that he secretly soaked his handkerchief in the martyr's blood, and that handkerchief, cut into a hundred relics, found its way into many pious homes.†
Chpt 4
- He was one of the martyrs of the Church.
Chpt 4 *martyrs = people who suffer for the sake of principle
Definition:
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(martyr) 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