Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The spot where a martyr suffered, or a chapel raised on that spot in his honor.
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- noun A
shrine in honor of a (usually religious, notably Christian)martyr , possibly at his grave
Etymologies
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Examples
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So howzabout you not get quite so martyry on all of us?
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Bithynia, in the martyry of the holy and victorious martyr Euphemia, has decreed as follows:
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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They had advanced about thirty furlongs from the martyry, and were compelled to halt.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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He hurried surreptitiously through the most distant outskirts of the town, and did not stop till they had reached a little martyry some six miles beyond it.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Secundus cursed and swore, and stamped his feet on the ground in fury; but seeing that it was useless, and might be dangerous, to persevere, he sullenly gave the order to return to the martyry.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Philip had seen him lowered into his lowly grave in the far-off, humble martyry; now he had seen his golden coffin inhumed beside the Imperial tombs.
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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Well, in those days of grotesque and horrible panic, when one was almost afraid to speak above a whisper, I was walking to the martyry of St. Babylas with my friend Theodore, now
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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The little chapel of the martyry was dedicated to St. Basiliscus, a Bishop of Comana who, in the third century, had suffered martyrdom with Lucian at
Gathering Clouds: A Tale of the Days of St. Chrysostom 1831-1903 1895
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What promise of high mystical things to come there is in the mere syllabling of the noble verse, and how it enlarges us from ourselves, for that time at least, to a disembodied unity with the troubled soul whose martyry seems foreboded in the solemn accents!
Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life) William Dean Howells 1878
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What promise of high mystical things to come there is in the mere syllabling of the noble verse, and how it enlarges us from ourselves, for that time at least, to a disembodied unity with the troubled soul whose martyry seems foreboded in the solemn accents!
Literature and Life (Complete) William Dean Howells 1878
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