martyr

Conservative Muslim women in Turkey hailed Esme as a martyr and a symbol of female strength and resistance.

Protestors chanted “with our blood and our souls, we will avenge you, oh martyr.”

He informed her that Hamzat had “become a shahid,” a martyr, and he was dead.

“Haters gonna hate” makes the person who says it into an automatic martyr, persecuted, misunderstood, maligned.

With that, writes historian Edward Larson, “The fundamentalist movement acquired a martyr.”

Joan Boughton, a widow, was burned for heresy; said to be the first female martyr of England.

It would not take two minutes to convert him from the inquisitor to the martyr at the stake.

Mrs. Stone's children were notoriously healthy, but she was of the stuff of which the modern martyr is made.

To his bourgeois mind, for all his imitation of the Chicago martyr, my words must have sounded knavish.

The martyr thanked him for his kindness, and promised to pray for him when she came into God's presence.