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Meanings of martyr in English

Russian
мученик
Portuguese
mártir
Catalan
màrtir
Spanish
mártir
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Person who suffers persecution and death for advocating, refusing to renounce, and/or refusing to advocate a belief or cause, usually a religious one.

Related terms
мученик
Catalan
martiritzar
Spanish
martirizar

Torture and torment like a martyr.

martiritzar
Portuguese
mártir
Catalan
màrtir

One who suffers for the sake of principle.

mártir
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Examples for "sufferer"
Examples for "sufferer"
1
Mr Bell laughed at his fellow-sufferer, held out his hand and said:
Dubliners
2
The sufferer fell back exhausted with his labor, but bathed in glory.
Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion
3
Of course the sufferer had the greatest trouble in eating and drinking.
Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons
4
I was the guilty person, not she; and she is the sufferer.
One of Our Conquerors — Volume 5
5
I seem to have been a good solid sufferer in my youth.
The new yorker
Usage of martyr in English
1
Parry Davies sighed and gave a good impression of a Christian martyr.
Evan and elle
2
Norman Podhoretz said that Rabin will be seen as a sacred martyr.
The new yorker
3
Here is an inscription in the rudest letters from a martyr's grave:-
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 / A Magazine...
4
Did he somehow seek this resignation - to become a political martyr?
BBC
5
I understand Leo Morn's a martyr to it, in the winter months.
The Bride Wore Black Leather
6
The priests also incited the people to lay hands on the martyr.
Heroes Every Child Should Know
7
You want to go down in history as a martyr, I suspect.
Waiting for the Barbarians
8
He came to ask the kind martyr for assistance in his distress.
Legends of the Rhine
9
He had the golden hair and beard of the early Christian martyr.
Police!!!
10
He belongs to the modern martyr series of the German of to-day.
The Land of Deepening Shadow: Germany-at-War
11
The palm of victory, we know, designates the martyr, triumphant in death.
Literary and General Lectures and Essays
12
It is the emblem of the martyr, as a conqueror through Christ.
Among the Trees at Elmridge
13
The third horse is riderless to remind one of the missing martyr.
Modern Persia
14
Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom;- agreatmartyr.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2
15
The martyr's abnegation of self is not yet dead in the world.
Dawn
16
Maniac or martyr, he is under the spell of a fixed idea.
An Introduction to Yoga
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