Words similar to martyrdom

Example sentences for: martyrdom

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Yeats ("the greatest poet of the twentieth century"), urging the House managers to "be secret and exult" in their martyrdom.
He wanted people to talk--and laugh and argue--about his movie, but he had no intention of courting martyrdom.
The English captured her and burned her at the stake in Rouen in 1431, but her martyrdom stirred national pride sufficiently to oust the English from France 20 years later.
Bavaud's martyrdom had been shrouded in silence by the Swiss authorities during the war, but it was now to be commemorated with a plaque on the house in Neuchâtel where he was born.
The producers of the play, basking in the glow of First Amendment martyrdom, have not done much to clear up the misunderstanding.