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Definition of Martyrdoms
1. martyrdom [n] - See also: martyrdom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Martyrdoms
Literary usage of Martyrdoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. England in the Age of Wycliffe by George Macaulay Trevelyan (1920)
"... only one of the signs of the times, but it is the one that most concerns us
here, for the history of these martyrdoms affords ample proof that a revival ..."
2. A General History of the Christian Church: To the Fall of the Western Empire by Joseph Priestley (1803)
"SECTION V. Of fame martyrdoms, the Accounts of which, though Ancient, are mixed
with Fable, viz. that of Boniface ..."
3. Parallel Paths: A Study in Biology, Ethics, and Art by Thomas William Rolleston (1908)
"And martyrdoms have been so often the great turning-points and inspirations of
... Consider from our point of view the significance of the two martyrdoms of ..."
4. The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries by Adolf von Harnack (1908)
"... us of some martyrdoms, which are not quite certain, at the Tauric town of
Cherson (Sebastopol) during the reign of Diocletian. So far as I know, ..."
5. A History of the Missions in Japan and Paraguay by Cecilia Mary Caddell (1856)
"martyrdoms of Japanese nobles, ?rith their wives and families. ... Heroic martyrdoms
of children and others. THE death of Augustine and his compeers ..."
6. A General History of the Christian Church: To the Fall of the Western Empire by Joseph Priestley (1803)
"... SECTION V. Of fame martyrdoms, the Accounts of which, though Ancient, are
mixed with Fable, viz. that of Boniface ..."
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