(n.) The condition of a martyr; the death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.
(n.) Affliction; torment; torture.
Example Sentences:
(1) "They refused and said they preferred fighting and martyrdom to surrendering," he said.
(2) A truck stopped on a street corner, blaring martyrdom hymns throughout the cavernous lanes and alleys of the party's heartland.
(3) In 1500, though, he unveiled two paintings in the Contarelli chapel in the church of San Luigi dei Francesi in Rome – the French church – showing Christ calling St Matthew and his martyrdom.
(4) He has taken various elements of the war, and translated their brutality into elegiac works, as with Freedom Qashoush Symphony, a delicate song which starts with rattled off gunfire, the symphony culminates in an urgent instrumental cry of freedom, inspired by Ibrahim al-Qashoush, an early symbol of rebel martyrdom.
(5) The execution of a figure like Sheikh al-Nimr, who had no means to follow his political and religious goals but through speaking out, merely shows the extent of irresponsibility and imprudence.” Iran’s parliamentary chair, Ali Larijani, warned: “Nimr’s martyrdom will put Saudi Arabia in a malestrom.
(6) • Early martyrdom looms for Delyth Evans, Carmarthen West's new parliamentary candidate.
(7) This is the martyrdom of an entire sex and it is foolish and childlike, made by babes.
(8) While I was writing my book Women Wartime Spies (Pen & Sword, 2011), I did quite a bit of research into Cavell, who I think has been somewhat misrepresented, conventional portrayals focusing on her martyrdom – a useful propaganda tool for the British wartime government.
(9) In this last article on nursing and martyrdom, the persecution and death of nurses in Brazil, New Guinea and in Europe during the First and Second World War are described.
(10) He is out there for martyrdom, he’s out there for a sacred cause, how can I oppose him?” Amir, another student, said.
(11) When last year the French newspaper Le Monde decided not to publish the names of those responsible for terrorist killings as it clearly aided their martyrdom, it was criticised for denying coverage.
(12) But to Ruqayah, it was a utopia I could never get used to hearing people talk about martyrdom.
(13) With their reputation obliterated, the Brazilians cannot even hide behind Neymar’s martyrdom after being kneed in the back by Colombia’s Juan Zúñiga in the quarter-final.
(14) Some may even be prepared to seek political martyrdom, being taken to court or banned from public office.
(15) In the long human struggle, the idea of "martyrdom" presents itself with a Janus-like face.
(16) The red flowers are meant to evoke martyrs’ blood, but martyrdom is a fraught and ill-used concept, and if the dead are martyrs to anything, it is the beauty of taking a walk in a fragile spring.
(17) According to his description of the martyrdom of the Saint, her teeth were extracted and her jawbones broken.
(18) Today we shall celebrate his martyrdom with tears of joy and sorrow.
(19) Of course, one of the main reasons I am doing this is so Allah gives me martyrdom and I get killed doing the most honourable thing in this life.
(20) God willing, the world will see how we avenge Osama bin Laden's martyrdom," said Khorasani.
Suicide
Definition:
(adv.) The act of taking one's own life voluntary and intentionally; self-murder; specifically (Law), the felonious killing of one's self; the deliberate and intentional destruction of one's own life by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind.
(adv.) One guilty of self-murder; a felo-de-se.
(adv.) Ruin of one's own interests.
Example Sentences:
(1) Unfortunately, due to confidentiality clauses that have been imposed on us by the Department of Immigration and Border Protection, we are unable to provide our full names and … titles … However, we believe the evidence that will be submitted will validate the statements that we are making in this submission.” The submission detailed specific allegations – including names and dates – of sexual abuse of child detainees, violence and bullying of children, suicide attempts by children and medical neglect.
(2) Male sex, age under 19 or over 45, few social supports, and a history of previous suicide attempts are all factors associated with increased suicide rates.
(3) But becoming that person in a traditional society can be nothing short of social suicide.
(4) In addition, pathological dexamethasone-tests may indicate an increased suicide-risk in these patients.
(5) The inhibition was irreversible, as well as time and concentration dependent, which indicates a suicide-inhibition type of metabolism.
(6) Murder-suicide occurs with an annual incidence of 0.2 to 0.3 per 100,000 person-years and accounts for approximately 1000 to 1500 deaths yearly in the United States.
(7) Depressive features in patients with CFS were similar to those of control subjects, but a trend toward suicidal behavior was noted.
(8) Although it appears to come within the confines of privacy, assisted suicide constitutes a more radical change in the law than its proponents suggest.
(9) There is general agreement that suicides are likely to be undercounted, both for structural reasons (the burden-of-proof issue, the requirement that the coroner or medical examiner suspect the possibility of suicide) and for sociocultural reasons.
(10) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
(11) Irrespective of method, the suicide attempt was predominantly a psychotic act of young single people with chronic, severe disorders and considerable past parasuicide, in a setting of escalating self-harm.
(12) The toxicological findings of this case are compared to the results of two chloroquine suicide cases and discussed in the context of the referring literature.
(13) Two cases of suicide by related kidney donors following graft rejection and the death of the recipients are reported.
(14) Study of the clinical characteristics of depressive state by hemisphere stroke with the use of symptom items of Zung scale and Hamilton scale showed that patients in depressive state with right hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items considered close to the essence of endogenous depression such as depressed mood, suicide, diurnal variation, loss of weight, and paranoid symptoms, while patients in depressive state with left hemisphere stroke had high values in symptom items having a nuance of so-called neurotic depression such as psychic anxiety, hypochondriasis, and fatigue.
(15) Answer, citing Edmund Burke: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” This is a very British suicide.
(16) Nevertheless, it is the black male group between the ages of 25 and 34 years that bears the brunt of both suicide and homicide.
(17) With a patient who in suicidal intention had orally taken a larger quantity of Bi 58 EC (dimethoate) especially the behaviour of the serum cholinesterase activity and the whole blood acetylcholinesterase activity was observed over a period of 38 days and it was compared with the clinical appearance.
(18) A new suicide vector (pKNG101) that facilitates the positive selection of double recombination events in Gram-bacteria has been developed.
(19) The findings suggest that learning disabilities may be an unrecognized factor which increases the risk of suicide attempts by adolescents.
(20) Awareness of problems that may arise in the physician-patient relationship may prevent such outcomes as suicide, anxiety, hypochondriasis, invalidism and psychotic symptoms.