˜yÐÄvlog

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martyry

[ mahr-tuh-ree ]

noun

plural martyries.
  1. a shrine, chapel, or the like, erected in honor of a martyr.


martyry

/ ˈ³¾É‘˳ÙÉ™°ùɪ /

noun

  1. a shrine or chapel erected in honour of a martyr
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of martyry1

1250–1300; Middle English martirie suffering, martyrdom < Medieval Latin marty-rium martyrdom, martyr's grave < Late Greek ³¾²¹°ù³Ùý°ù¾±´Ç²Ô. See martyr, -y 3
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We may think that there was something a little too dramatic in the manner of his heroism, his martyry, and we may smile at certain turns of rhetoric in the immortal letter accusing the French nation of intolerable wrong, just as, in our smug Anglo-Saxon conceit, we laughed at the procedure of the emotional courts which he compelled to take cognizance of the immense misdeed other courts had as emotionally committed.

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