martyrsome
adjEtymology From martyr + -some.
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Pertaining to, or characteristic of a martyr
- 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:
- It was surely a martyrsome situation.1903, Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joe Mitchell Chapple, National Magazine - Volume 19 - Page 648:
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- Often through colors of trust & this very old spring in its martyrsome silence [...]2014, M. Flores Jr., Collected Poems: