martyrsome

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adjective

Pertaining to, or characteristic of a martyr

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Meanings

adjectivemartyrsome (comparative more martyrsome, superlative most martyrsome)

comparative more martyrsome · superlative most martyrsome

  1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of a martyr

    It was surely a martyrsome situation.

    1903, Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joe Mitchell Chapple, National Magazine - Volume 19 - Page 648
    2 more examples

    These saints, by the way, do not always preserve after death the mild and martyrsome dispositions that characterized them during life.

    1903, George Horton, In Argolis

    Often through colors of trust & this very old spring in its martyrsome silence [...]

    2014, M. Flores Jr., Collected Poems

Origin

From martyr + -some.

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