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martyrsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From martyr + -some.

Meanings

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:
   • 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:

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