Definition of Martyrizing

1. martyrize [v] - See also: martyrize

Lexicographical Neighbors of Martyrizing

martyrial
martyries
martyring
martyrion
martyrions
martyrise
martyrish
martyrium
martyriums
martyrization
martyrizations
martyrize
martyrized
martyrizer
martyrizes
martyrizing (current term)
martyrless
martyrlike
martyrly
martyrolatry
martyrologe
martyrologes
martyrologic
martyrological
martyrologies
martyrologist
martyrologists
martyrologue
martyrologues
martyrology

Literary usage of Martyrizing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... ppr. martyrizing. ... We feel little remorse in martyrizing animals uf low degree. Pop. Sei. Ho., XXV. 766. ..."

2. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"But I am doing a good deed in drawing you away from your labours. I have a plot to prevent you from martyrizing yourself." While this greeting was going ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1884)
"It is not without reason that we feel little remorse in martyrizing an animal of low degree in the series of beings. As we descend from man to the plant, ..."

4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1844)
"... however, tions, are martyrizing and driving out stands up under logical analysis. The large numbers of their nationals, sup- problem of unemployment is ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1855)
"It is an old and favourite expedient with some practitioners who certainly did not think of martyrizing themselves, although they wished to save their ..."

6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1857)
"But I am doing a good deed in drawing you away from your labors I have a plot to prevent you from martyrizing yourself." While this greeting was going ..."

7. The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Fanny Kemble, Kate Field, John William Cole (1882)
"... originally loose for me, become absolute instruments of torture, like those infamous " boots " of martyrizing memory, ..."

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