martyrology
Americannoun
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martyrologies
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the branch of knowledge dealing with the lives of martyrs.
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a history of martyrs.
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such histories collectively.
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a list of martyrs.
noun
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an official list of martyrs
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Christianity the study of the lives of the martyrs
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a historical account of the lives of martyrs
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Origin of martyrology
1590–1600; < Medieval Latin martyrologium history of martyrs < Late Greek martyrológion. See martyr, -o-, -logy
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Threaded through the narrative, as contrast and commentary, is a martyrology of female saints.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026
Showfolk love martyrology as much as political people do.
From Time Magazine Archive
Monday 23d November, day of St Clement, pope and martyr, and others in the martyrology.
From Pascal by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
And for one who was now wallowing in the martyrology, penance was the mortification of the flesh.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
Did I not know the whole martyrology before your mother was born?
From Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
According to the Catholic Encyclopaedia, at least three Saint Valentines are mentioned in the early martyrologies under the date of 14 February.
From BBC ● Feb. 12, 2016
There is not among all the martyrologies that ever were penned, so rueful a narrative as the lives of the poets.
From Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp
He is named in the Roman, and other martyrologies.
From The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March by Alban Butler
The three martyrologies of Ignatius are likewise universally repudiated as mere fictions.
From Supernatural Religion, Vol. II. (of III) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels
In this group of figures, the seven are represented as young, without beards, and indeed in ancient martyrologies they are frequently called boys.
From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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