engelska-esperanto översättning av martyr
Definition av martyr
- One who willingly accepts being put to death for adhering openly to one's religious beliefs; notably, saints canonized after martyrdom
- One who sacrifices his or her life, station, or something of great personal value, for the sake of principle or to sustain a cause
- To make someone into a '''martyr''by putting him or her to death for adhering to, or acting in accordance with, some belief, especially religious; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession
- To torment; to torture
Exempel
- Saint Stephen was the first Christian martyr
- Stan is a martyr to arthritis, Chris a martyr to Stans endless moaning about it
- Some religious and other minorities were martyred until extinction.
- The lovely Amoret, whose gentle heart
- Thou martyrest with sorrow and with smart. — Spenser
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