martyrize

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

They martyrize themselves by sacrificing everything; they spoil them and convert them into ungrateful lovers.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell