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单词 martyress
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martyressn.

Brit. /mɑːtəˈrɛs/, /ˈmɑːtərᵻs/, U.S. /ˈmɑrdərəs/
Forms: late Middle English marteresse, 1600s martres, 1600s– martyress.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: martyr n., -ess suffix1.
Etymology: < martyr n. + -ess suffix1. Compare Middle French martyresse (1566).
A female martyr.
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society > faith > worship > martyrdom > [noun] > one who undergoes > female
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martyrago1654
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) I. lf. 53 Alas my fader am I born vnder so vnhappy constellacion for to be a marteresse and prisonner.
1601 R. Verstegan Odes 59 Anastatia A martres and a wyf.
1601 R. Verstegan Odes 60 This glorious martres [sc. Affra].
1678 Festa Anglo-Romana 125 St. Lucia..Unspotted Virgin, and Resolute Martyress.
1765 D. Garrick Let. 4 May (1963) II. 457 She underwent, like any of her own papistical Martyresses, various violent operations.
1840 G. Darley Thomas à Becket v. xv. 142 'Tis but the statued form Of a young Martyress.
1991 Representations Summer 148 Jiang He's ‘Unfinished Poem’..depicts Zhang Zhixin, a revolutionary martyress who was imprisoned, tortured, and finally executed during the Cultural Revolution for openly challenging Mao's ideology.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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