martyr-

1. Someone who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
2. A person who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.
4. One who endures great suffering: a martyr to arthritis.
5. Anyone who makes a great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.
6. To make a martyr of, especially to put to death for devotion to religious beliefs.
7. To inflict great pain on; to torment.

1. The condition, sufferings, or death of a martyr.
2. Extreme suffering; torment.

1. To kill someone for holding beliefs.
2. To kill somebody for refusing to deny a strongly held belief; especially, a religious belief.
3. To martyr oneself by making sacrifices for something.
4. To bring difficulties, suffering, or hardship on oneself for a belief.

1. A shrine erected in memory of a martyr.
2. A church or other edifice built at a site, especially a tomb, associated with a Christian martyr or saint.

1. To make a martyr of; especially, by causing to suffer, to torment.: "The ancient Romans martyrized many Christians."
2. To torment and torture like a martyr. Also spelled, especially British, as martyrise.

In the manner of a martyr.

1. A veneraton or worship of martyrs.
2. An excessive devotion to martyrs.

a martyrology.

1. Pertaining to martyrology or martyrs; registering, or registered in, a catalogue of martyrs.
2. Alternate of martyrological.

Pertaining to martyrology or martyrs; registering, or registered in, a catalogue of martyrs.

1. A writer of martyrology.
2. An historian of martyrs.
3. Someone who specializes in the accounts of the lives and manners of the deaths of martyrs.
4. A writer of or a specialist in martyrology.

1. The branch of historical knowledge dealing with the lives of martyrs.
2. A history of religious martyrs.
3. Such histories collectively.
4. A list or catalogue of martyrs.
5. An account of the life and manner of the death of a martyr.
6. The branch of ecclesiastical history or hagiography that deals with martyrs.

Another term for martyrdom.

A shrine (or shrines) erected in honor of a martyr or martyrs.