martyry

[mahr-tuh-ree]

noun

plural

martyries 

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

martyry

/ ˈmɑːtərɪ /

noun

1. a shrine or chapel erected in honour of a martyr

Word History and Origins

Origin of martyry¹

1250–1300; Middle English martirie suffering, martyrdom < Medieval Latin marty-rium martyrdom, martyr's grave < Late Greek martýrion. See martyr, -y ³

Example Sentences

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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