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Definition of martyred in English: martyredadjective ˈmɑːtədˈmɑrdərd 1(of a person) having been martyred. Example sentencesExamples - He became a martyred hero whose soaring rhetoric inspired many in the United States and abroad.
- This is the day of martyred intellectuals, who were brutally killed by the occupation army and their cohorts.
- Scottish nationalists have made her into their version of Joan of Arc, a martyred hero who struggled against English oppression.
- Almost overnight the martyred Thomas became a saint.
- Emotionally, he is drawn to Mary, a martyred heroine falsely accused of plotting her cousin's death and meeting her own end with grace and dignity.
- Many martyred pilgrim sites are spread across the country.
- Figuring the outlaw as the martyred victim of both tyranny from without and treachery from within, oral tradition solicits sympathy and even pity for the people's hero.
- In the Vendee, south of the Loire, civil war was soon raging, with the rebels organizing themselves into a self-styled Catholic and Royal Army dedicated to restoring the heirs of the martyred king.
- All the mothers emphasized that their martyred son was the better child: he was the best looking, the smartest, the most compassionate and loving of all the siblings.
- People had held her in high esteem fancying that her withdrawal from public life was a sort of silent homage to her martyred husband.
- And so the story ends with the martyred Saint John the Baptist.
- The artist drew on religious imagery of martyred saints to depict new political martyrs.
- From around the fourth century, bishops approved the cause of martyred Christians, and their cult would spread among local churches.
- Another woman, dressed in white and with her hair pulled back in a chignon, says she weeps today ‘to beg forgiveness of this martyred child.’
- John the Baptist's murder might well have been similarly cast save for the tradition that followed him, which recounts the story in which he is a martyred saint.
- A large figure of St. Nabor, a martyred Roman soldier, overlooks the silent host.
- 1.1 (of an expression or manner) showing pretended or exaggerated suffering so as to obtain sympathy.
he got into the car with a martyred air Example sentencesExamples - Renny quit his pummeling and struck a martyred pose.
- It was a snack shop; he turned to the lady at the counter with a martyred expression, amazed inside at how easy it was to lie.
- At this stage I'm going around with a martyred look on my face, indicating to everyone that I am abstaining from something, which goes against what I learned at school.
- I glanced over and almost leapt out of my skin to see Will being wheeled into the room in a blue hospital wheelchair, a look of martyred boredom on his face, mingled with a sneaky eagerness and a hint of shame.
- Some stand as if in a martyred silence, some have bullhorns.
Definition of martyred in US English: martyredadjectiveˈmärdərdˈmɑrdərd 1(of a person) having been martyred. Example sentencesExamples - Almost overnight the martyred Thomas became a saint.
- In the Vendee, south of the Loire, civil war was soon raging, with the rebels organizing themselves into a self-styled Catholic and Royal Army dedicated to restoring the heirs of the martyred king.
- The artist drew on religious imagery of martyred saints to depict new political martyrs.
- A large figure of St. Nabor, a martyred Roman soldier, overlooks the silent host.
- From around the fourth century, bishops approved the cause of martyred Christians, and their cult would spread among local churches.
- And so the story ends with the martyred Saint John the Baptist.
- He became a martyred hero whose soaring rhetoric inspired many in the United States and abroad.
- Many martyred pilgrim sites are spread across the country.
- Figuring the outlaw as the martyred victim of both tyranny from without and treachery from within, oral tradition solicits sympathy and even pity for the people's hero.
- Emotionally, he is drawn to Mary, a martyred heroine falsely accused of plotting her cousin's death and meeting her own end with grace and dignity.
- People had held her in high esteem fancying that her withdrawal from public life was a sort of silent homage to her martyred husband.
- John the Baptist's murder might well have been similarly cast save for the tradition that followed him, which recounts the story in which he is a martyred saint.
- Another woman, dressed in white and with her hair pulled back in a chignon, says she weeps today ‘to beg forgiveness of this martyred child.’
- This is the day of martyred intellectuals, who were brutally killed by the occupation army and their cohorts.
- Scottish nationalists have made her into their version of Joan of Arc, a martyred hero who struggled against English oppression.
- All the mothers emphasized that their martyred son was the better child: he was the best looking, the smartest, the most compassionate and loving of all the siblings.
- 1.1 (of an attitude or manner) showing feigned or exaggerated suffering to obtain sympathy or admiration.
he gave Mulder a brief, martyred look Example sentencesExamples - Some stand as if in a martyred silence, some have bullhorns.
- It was a snack shop; he turned to the lady at the counter with a martyred expression, amazed inside at how easy it was to lie.
- Renny quit his pummeling and struck a martyred pose.
- I glanced over and almost leapt out of my skin to see Will being wheeled into the room in a blue hospital wheelchair, a look of martyred boredom on his face, mingled with a sneaky eagerness and a hint of shame.
- At this stage I'm going around with a martyred look on my face, indicating to everyone that I am abstaining from something, which goes against what I learned at school.
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