(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".
Shaheed
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Shaheed's findings, which are due to be officially presented to the UN in Geneva later this month, have already led to much criticism from Tehran.
(2) Allah akbar.” “Shaheed means martyr,” Weinreb said, adding: “He wrote ‘The US government is killing our innocent civilians … I can’t let this go unpunished.’” Weinreb also painted a picture of Tsarnaev’s behaviour following the bombing attack.
(3) Shaheed was appointed after various human rights organisations, including Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, issued concerted warnings about Iran's rights violation records.
(4) Since then, Iran has blocked a visit by Ahmed Shaheed , a newly appointed UN Human Rights Council investigator.
(5) "People come to me with complaints of their rights being violated, and yes they generally do hold views different from the government in Tehran," Shaheed told the Guardian.
(6) Speaking to the Guardian, Shaheed, a visiting professor at Essex University, defended his report and said his findings were based on "totally verified and documented" sources.
(7) He died as a martyr, Shaheed, and his destiny will be to go and God will reward you."
(8) Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in Iran, said on Wednesday that, in Iran, at least 176 people so far had been put to death this year alone.
(9) Ahmed Shaheed's latest report charges the Islamic republic with cases of torture, executions, illegal arrests of journalists, forced confessions and denial of basic rights to religious, ethnic and sexual minorities.
(10) In June, the UN human rights council appointed former Maldivian foreign affairs minister Ahmed Shaheed as a UN special rapporteur investigating Iran, but several Iranian officials have signalled he will not be allowed to visit the country.
(11) Hiden Hassan, 37, another Shaheed Brigade fighter, said the two soldiers had driven towards them as they advanced.
(12) Or with her assertion that the Chechen terrorist leader and architect of the Beslan school massacre, Shamil Basayev, was a 'shaheed' or martyr?
(13) "We are now one and a half kilometres from Zlitan," said a rebel fighter, Mohammed Ashanobah, of the Shaheed (Martyr) Brigade.
(14) Iran's foreign ministry spokesman, Ramin Mehmanparast, accused Shaheed of "toadying to the US and Israel" with a report that he described as unsubstantiated, biased and collated from "anti-Iranian outlets and terrorist groups".
(15) Imam Salahuddin Muhammad could hardly miss Shahed Hussain when he first appeared three years ago at his mosque in the dilapidated town of Newburgh, just 60 miles up the Hudson River from New York .
(16) Soon after Shaheed assumed his mandate from the UN human rights council in June 2011, Iranian officials said they would not permit him to enter the country, saying that his appointment was unacceptable and "an illegal measure".
(17) In his latest report on the situation of human rights in Iran , UN special rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed expressed concerns about "the potentially negative humanitarian effect of general economic sanctions" and called on the countries behind the punitive measures to make sure that "humanitarian exemptions are effectively serving their intended purpose".
(18) A retrospective study of 98 patients with tetanus treatment in Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Hospital, Gujrat, over a period of three years (1973-75) is presented.
(19) Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), South Asia's oldest Islamist party, has been buffeted by a torrent of criticism from the media and political rivals after the head of the party, Munawar Hassan, declared the Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud a shaheed after he was killed.
(20) Elsewhere on that record, along with Tribe cohorts Phife Dawg and Ali Shaheed Muhammad, he left his wallet somewhere in El Segundo, shortly before wondering whether we could kick it (yes, we could).