(n.) One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
(n.) Hence, one who sacrifices his life, his station, or what is of great value to him, for the sake of principle, or to sustain a cause.
(v. t.) To put to death for adhering to some belief, esp. Christianity; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
(v. t.) To persecute; to torment; to torture.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clashes between the moralistic Levin and his friend Oblonsky, sometimes affectionate, sometimes angry, and Levin's linkage of modernity to Oblonsky's attitudes – that social mores are to be worked around and subordinated to pleasure, that families are base camps for off-base nooky – undermine one possible reading of Anna Karenina , in which Anna is a martyr in the struggle for the modern sexual freedoms that we take for granted, taken down by the hypocritical conservative elite to which she, her lover and her husband belong.
(2) As a result of the blast, there were martyrs and wounded among our heroic armed comrades,” the military said.
(3) We will all be martyred in this fight.” Attempted coup in Turkey: what we know so far Read more He sent his bodyguard to fetch his personal gun.
(4) Balyana’s mayor said the statue was intended to portray a “martyred soldier hugging his mother”.
(5) We ought not treat a traitor like a martyr.” Responding to Cotton, a White House official said it was worth considering that the Republican supported the presidency of “someone who publicly praised WikiLeaks” and who “encouraged a foreign government to hack his opponent”, in reference to Trump.
(6) We made a mass prayers for the ten bodies and then buried them in Martyrs cemetery.
(7) Aguila Saleh said there were a “number of martyrs” in LNA ranks, without giving a figure.
(8) To most of us, Ken Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian activist and a martyr, a brave and inspiring campaigner who led his Ogoni people's struggle against the decades-long defilement of their land by Big Oil, and ended up paying for it with his life.
(9) So wrote the Negro author Louis Lomax, catching the crucial spark that made Martin Luther King , jun., stand out head and shoulders from his fellow-ministers in the South and step into the ranks of the world's martyrs.
(10) "We told the mujahideen to leave it to us ordinary Fallujans, but those bloody bastards, the sheikhs and the clerics, are busy painting some bloody mad picture of heaven and martyrs and the victory of the mujahideen," said Ali, another refugee.
(11) If she then married a radical jihadi, her status as the widow of a martyr would extend to him in terror circles.
(12) Two other men, Alwyn Jones and George Taylor, became martyrs for the cause after they accidentally blew themselves up behind the library in Abergele, Conwy, while priming a bomb.
(13) But it was Laura, the martyr of East Dulwich, whom traditionalists appointed chief victim of the changes: the poster girl for affluent, stay-at-home mothers.
(14) 'The first convert to Islam was a woman, and the first martyr, and women fought on the battlefield alongside men 1,400 years ago.
(15) Searches of their homes revealed images of Islamic propaganda on both of their computers, including images of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) flags and martyr literature.
(16) The day after Zeidan's removal, the powerful Misrata militia, allied to congress, launched an offensive to retake the blockaded oil terminals, storming the base of an army special forces unit – the Zawiya Martyrs brigade – in the central city of Sirte, leaving five people dead.
(17) We have paid a lot for the security and stability that we currently live in, so I ask all Egyptians for the sake of the martyrs and the blood to take care of their country,” Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, the president, said in a speech to the nation on Saturday.
(18) As he prepares to go into battle, the militant wishes that he and his wife could become “martyrs” at the same time.
(19) Read more “I carried four martyrs from the scene,” one man told local TV, his clothes caked in blood as he sat on the ground near the site of the bombing, having rushed to the scene after hearing the first explosion.
(20) Hassan's remarks on a television programme, during which he also said Pakistani troops killed while supporting the US conflict with the Taliban should not be considered martyrs, were described in an official army statement as "painful and unfortunate".
Patriot
Definition:
(n.) One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests.
(a.) Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.
Example Sentences:
(1) October 27, 2013 7.27pm GMT Around the league And here’s how things look elsewhere, as we head into the fourth quarter: Cowboys 13-7 Lions Browns 17-20 Chiefs Dolphins 17-20 Patriots Bills 10-28 Saints Giants 15-0 Eagles 49ers 35-10 Jaguars 7.25pm GMT End of 3rd quarter: 49ers 35-10 Jaguars The quarter ends with the Jaguars facing a third-and-one at their own 32.
(2) The “100% Australian-made” text on packaging has been enlarged to appeal to customer patriotism.
(3) I think we need to restore the metadata programme, which was part of the Patriot Act,” he told MSNBC.
(4) The Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's largest organised political movement, added its voice to the chorus of discontent, accusing Scaf of contradicting 'all human, religious and patriotic values' with their callousness and warning that the revolution that overthrew former president Hosni Mubarak earlier this year was able to rise again.
(5) On 23 June, the Cleveland linebacker Ausar Walcott was charged with attempted murder following a brawl in a bar; three days later, the New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez was arrested on suspicion of shooting a man dead.
(6) He will insist "government should stop feeling embarrassed about the need for more patriotism in our economic policy.
(7) As a patriot who worked tirelessly to keep Britain safe from attack.
(8) If the Senate refuses to pass a strengthened version of the USA Freedom Act this summer, reformers should consider what 24 hours ago was unthinkable: abandon the bill and force Section 215 of the Patriot Act to expire once and for all in 2015.
(9) In Barcelona, Catalonian flags hang down from every other terraced window; a few months ago, its Nou Camp stadium was filled to 90,000-capacity, with patriots cheering on artists performing in Catalan.
(10) "For a lot of people in poorer neighbourhoods we are liberators," crowed Yiannis Lagos, one of 18 MPs from the stridently patriot "popular nationalist movement" to enter the 300-seat house in June.
(11) No wonder he was patriotic and believed giving up the empire would be a disaster.
(12) 8.35pm GMT Patriots 0-3 Broncos, 2:15, 1st quarter Brady passes to Shane Vereen for 24 yards, but Edelman can't quite pull in his 1st and 10 pass at the Patriots' 44.
(13) Tebow signed for the Jets in March 2012 , after it became clear that the Broncos – who he had rescued from a 1-4 start to 2011 and taken to an 8-8 finish and a playoff run that was ended by the Patriots – would sign the Indianapolis Colts great Peyton Manning.
(14) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
(15) The officially authorised Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement , and the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, are organised in such a way as to cloister Chinese Christians from foreign influence.
(16) Critics say that for Obama to say "let's re-debate the Patriot Act" means little unless the still-secret executive-branch interpretation remains undisclosed.
(17) Danes spent a day with an officer at Langley, the CIA's headquarters in Virginia, and that seems to have fortified her patriotism, too.
(18) Massie indicated the coalition is already looking towards the June 2017 expiration of another broad surveillance power, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, to force additional rollbacks, much as the USA Freedom Act authors used the expiration of parts of the Patriot Act as leverage to pass their bill.
(19) Can the leftwing candidates unite to offer a credible alternative, or will party patriotism and egos make it impossible, condemning their party to be excluded from the second round?
(20) Her lawyer Tony Muman told the ECHR last November: "She's a patriot" adding that she had suffered "absolutely no pressure" from her family or relatives to cover herself.