(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.
Torment
Definition:
(n.) An engine for casting stones.
(n.) Extreme pain; anguish; torture; the utmost degree of misery, either of body or mind.
(n.) That which gives pain, vexation, or misery.
(v. t.) To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture.
(v. t.) To pain; to distress; to afflict.
(v. t.) To tease; to vex; to harass; as, to be tormented with importunities, or with petty annoyances.
(v. t.) To put into great agitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her story is an incredible tale of triumph over tragedy: a tormented childhood during China's Cultural Revolution, detention and forced exile after exposing female infanticide – then glittering success as the head of a major US technology firm.
(2) "It is difficult to imagine the torment experienced by the vulnerable victims of crimes such as these.
(3) While his citizens were being beaten and tormented in illegal detention, spokesmen for the then prime minister, Tony Blair, declared: "The Italian police had a difficult job to do.
(4) Yet the removal of two in-form goalscorers who were tormenting West Ham – first Aaron Lennon and then Lukaku – afforded the visitors the initiative.
(5) Through small and large acts of deprivation and destruction we follow the process: the removal of hope, of dignity, of luxury, of necessity, of self; the reduction of a man to a hoarder of grey slabs of bread and the scrapings of a soup bowl (wonderfully told all this, with a novelist's gift for detail and sometimes very nearly comic surprise), to the confinement of a narrow bed – in which there is "not even any room to be afraid" – with a stranger who doesn't speak your language, to the cruel illogicality of hating a fellow victim of oppression more than you hate the oppressor himself – one torment following another, and even the bleak comfort of thinking you might have touched rock bottom denied you as, when the most immediate cause of a particular stress comes to an end, "you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others".
(6) Corner to USA though... 1.33am BST 20 mins More tempo in the American play now, but Belgium intercept again, and Mirallas torments them down the Belgian right flank before hitting a low cross in that's hoofed safely clear.
(7) It cannot be right that anyone who has found the courage to escape their abusive or violent partner should be subjected to the stress and torment of being confronted and interrogated by them in any court.” Research by charity Women’s Aid suggests a quarter of women in family court proceedings have been cross-examined by an abusive former partner.
(8) Shin Dong-hyuk said he was tormented to see his father alive and speaking in the video released by Pyongyang in October.
(9) In a torment of frustration, Mohammed stood outside the governor's and threw a can of petrol over himself.
(10) More than a quarter of hospital beds are occupied by people with dementia (no surprise to anyone who has been in hospital recently, where wards are full of men and women in great anxiety and torment) and they tend to stay for longer-than-average periods of time.
(11) Senator Jack Reed, a Democrat from Rhode Island whose bipartisan bill will ensure a three-month extension of the federal benefits program, told the Guardian the measure would stimulate the economy and alleviate what he called the “mental torment” suffered by those long-term unemployed who now feel abandoned.
(12) It was only his inflexible determination, the quality that had made him a great general, that mastered the torments of ill-health – sleepless nights, fear of dying – to articulate his account for a devoted American audience.
(13) The man who devised these torments has a passing resemblance to El Greco's emaciated saints.
(14) Arsenal had no riposte to the blue and white striped waves that tormented them all evening.
(15) Father Michael, so brilliantly played by Sean Bean , was tormented by one such moment: his decision not to answer the phone to Helen Oyenusi (Muna Otaru) when she called to ask that he calm down her son.
(16) Suárez played as through affronted by the suggestion he might have fitness issues, tormenting England’s defence on a night that finished as a personal ordeal for Steven Gerrard.
(17) So often did John torment his elder brother – because, grouchy alcoholic prick that he was, he hated to acknowledge a debt – one has to wonder if he cast Francis in a minor part in Young Mr Lincoln simply to let him witness, day after day, his own signature role being forever obliterated by Henry Fonda's entrancing new reading.
(18) Shawcross, however, maintains there was no bad intent and said for that reason he has not been tormenting himself about the moment he collided with Ramsey's right leg and left the teenager writhing in agony.
(19) Since his withdrawal from the music scene, Shields has earned a reputation as the latter-day Brian Wilson, a tormented genius unable to produce a successor to Loveless, the Pet Sounds of UK avant-rock.
(20) Adding to the torment for Rodgers was a 120-minute performance before hosting Manchester City in the Premier League on Sunday at noon.