martyrize

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South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure.

From Time Magazine Archive

Very well, then! she would go to Brudenstein; she would not martyrize herself by being with a man on crutches!

From Halcyone by Glyn, Elinor

I martyrize her, I know I do," he said to Isaacson; "but I don't believe it's my fault.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

But he’d martyrize himself, I knew, by refusing it, even though I made it.

From The Prairie Mother by Becher, Arthur E.