(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".
Traitor
Definition:
(n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
(n.) Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
(a.) Traitorous.
(v. t.) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Worst of all, it invites politicians to identify their opponents as traitors to the nation.
(2) It’s all they are interested in – identifying traitors.
(3) Was Boris Nemtsov killed because in Russia opposition activists are deemed traitors?
(4) The independent review was set up by Steve Williams, the new Police Federation chairman, who has been called a traitor and a dictator, and faced a no-confidence motion for trying to drive through a programme of reform of the organisation after he took up the role earlier this year.
(5) Evra had earlier railed against the "traitor" in the squad's midst, "who told the press what was said" at half-time against Mexico.
(6) 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.
(7) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On another wall by a playground, Jeff points out the faces of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and painted between them the question: “Hero or traitor?” The relative freedom Bogotá’s street artists have become accustomed too, however, may be about to change.
(8) Another former colleague in the psychological operations unit, Fred Allen Lucas, said that Page called him a "race traitor" for dating Latina women and took to calling other races "dirt people".
(9) The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.
(10) But as the night echoed with chants denouncing Taliban apologists as traitors,some in the crowd quietly admitted their doubts.
(11) It is hard to imagine a less traitorous motive for whistleblowing, or a more powerful public interest in what was revealed.
(12) Mohammad Javad Zarif, his foreign minister, was labelled a traitor and threatened with being buried in the concrete to be used to decommission the Arak nuclear reactor .
(13) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
(14) But Adam Holloway asked leftie David Winnick if he'd think Snowden a traitor if a British city was nuked by terrorists (duh?).
(15) Sessions denied what he called “very painful” claims at the time that he condemned the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as “un-American” and described a white civil rights attorney as a race traitor.
(16) When Murphy resumed his 100-town tour off Edinburgh’s Princes Street on Tuesday he was energetic and courteous, praising both sides for their patriotism: “No one in this debate is a traitor, no one is a quisling.” The remark was directed at angry, even threatening hecklers ( he posted the evidence on YouTube ) who had called Murphy both and forced him to suspend the tour temporarily.
(17) We didn’t want to make this journey but in Baghdad I worked as a translator for a British oil company and people saw me as a traitor.
(18) Inside the cavernous hall, Cameron kicked off with a joke that failed, tragically, to rise – he felt a "bit of a traitor", he said, because "here I am in a bakery, but the thing is, I went out the other day and bought myself my own breadmaker".
(19) He is a traitor because, by a cold-blooded and calculated act, he attacked your country by significantly damaging its capacity to defend itself from its enemies, and in doing so, he put your citizen’s lives at risk.
(20) Nobody knows if he defected or he's a traitor or he was kidnapped.