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Definition of Martyrologists
1. martyrologist [n] - See also: martyrologist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Martyrologists
Literary usage of Martyrologists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Church by Robert Southey (1825)
"Sir Thomas More is represented, by the Protestant martyrologists, as a cruel
persecutor ; by Catholics, as a blessed martyr. Like some of his contemporaries ..."
2. The Apostolic Fathers by Clement, Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1890)
"and we meet with similar notices in Florus-Beda and in Ado and the later Roman
martyrologists. There can be no doubt therefore that the Romanus of ..."
3. The Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould (1882)
"martyrologists before the 6th century call her a virgin, so that at that time
the complete legend of her conversion from a life of sin was not made up, ..."
4. History of the Church of Christ by Joseph Milner (1809)
"If the ancient martyrologists had been preserved un- corrupted, they "would afford
us useful materials, and illustrate much the spirit and genius of real ..."
5. The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the Chief Poet by Charles Anderson Read, Thomas Power O'Connor (1893)
"Whereas in the constant language of the martyrologists a saint's nativity is not
esteemed the day of his entrance into this world, but the day of his death. ..."
6. John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount of Dundee, 1648-1689 by Charles Sanford Terry (1905)
"Even the martyrologists admit that he gave the unhappy victim, whom the law and
not he condemned, a respite for prayer and leavetaking.3 1 Patrick Walker, ..."
7. An Account of the Life and Writings of S. Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyons and by James Beaven (1841)
"In fact all the martyrologists, both Latin and Greek, make him a martyr.
The tradition, therefore, appears a highly probable one. ..."
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