martyrdom
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“If, in fact, their lives serve to provide protection to others, then their martyrdoms will not have been in vain,” Mahony told mourners at the funeral.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 19, 2022
Mythologized martyrdoms manufactured sometimes literally out of nothing.
From Salon • Nov. 3, 2021
Along with this — as in the work of many Counter-Reformation painters, like Caravaggio — came a zest for mystical subject matter: visions, conversions, martyrdoms and miracles.
From New York Times • Dec. 27, 2013
Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian The Christian saints had a hard time of it, but they were pretty stoical about their grisly martyrdoms.
From The Guardian • May 22, 2013
On the other hand, nothing has materialized of the prophesied religious persecutions, civil war, and martyrdoms.
From A History of the Third French Republic by Wright, C. H. C. (Charles Henry Conrad)
Vocabulary lists containing martyrdom
"Musée des Beaux Arts" by W.H. Auden
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"Musee des Beaux Arts," Vocabulary from the poem
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Poems 10.4
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