"martyrdom" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈmɑː(ɹ).tə(ɹ).dəm/ [UK] Audio: en-us-martyrdom.ogg Forms: martyrdoms [plural]
Etymology: From Middle English martyrdome, martirdom, marterdom, from Old English martyrdōm (“martyrdom”), corresponding to martyr + -dom. Cognate with German Märtyrertum (“martyrdom”), Danish martyrdom (“martyrdom”), Swedish martyrdom (“martyrdom”), Norwegian martyrdom (“martyrdom”). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|martyrdome}} Middle English martyrdome, {{inh|en|ang|martyrdōm||martyrdom}} Old English martyrdōm (“martyrdom”), {{suffix|en|martyr|dom}} martyr + -dom, {{cog|de|Märtyrertum||martyrdom}} German Märtyrertum (“martyrdom”), {{cog|da|martyrdom||martyrdom}} Danish martyrdom (“martyrdom”), {{cog|sv|martyrdom||martyrdom}} Swedish martyrdom (“martyrdom”), {{cog|no|martyrdom||martyrdom}} Norwegian martyrdom (“martyrdom”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} martyrdom (countable and uncountable, plural martyrdoms)
  1. The condition of a martyr; the death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (condition of a martyr): شَهَادَة (šahāda) [feminine] (Arabic), мъченичество (mǎčeničestvo) [neuter] (Bulgarian), martiri [masculine] (Catalan), 殉難 (Chinese Mandarin), 殉难 (xùnnàn) (Chinese Mandarin), 殉教 (xùnjiào) (Chinese Mandarin), 殉道 (xùndào) (Chinese Mandarin), mučednictví [neuter] (Czech), marttyyrius (Finnish), martyre [masculine] (French), მოწამეობა (moc̣ameoba) (Georgian), Märtyrertod [masculine] (German), μαρτύριο (martýrio) [neuter] (Greek), शहादत (śahādat) [feminine] (Hindi), शहीदी (śahīdī) [feminine] (Hindi), कुरबानी (kurbānī) [feminine] (Hindi), mártíromság (Hungarian), vértanúság (Hungarian), 殉教 (junkyō) (alt: じゅんきょう) (Japanese), രക്തസാക്ഷിത്വം (raktasākṣitvaṁ) (Malayalam), വീരമൃത്യു (vīramr̥tyu) (Malayalam), ആത്മത്യാഗം (ātmatyāgaṁ) (Malayalam), matiratanga (Maori), شهادت (şehadet) (Ottoman Turkish), شهادت (šahâdat) (Persian), męczeństwo [neuter] (Polish), ਸ਼ਹਾਦਤ (śahādat) [Gurmukhi, feminine] (Punjabi), شَہَادَت (śahādat) [Shahmukhi, feminine] (Punjabi), му́ченичество (múčeničestvo) [neuter] (Russian), martarachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), martirio [masculine] (Spanish), martyrskap [neuter] (Swedish), му́чеництво (múčenyctvo) [neuter] (Ukrainian), شَہَادَت (śahādat) [feminine] (Urdu), martür (Volapük), matür (english: older word) (Volapük)
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  2. Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (great suffering): martiri [masculine] (Catalan), 折磨 (zhémo) (Chinese Mandarin), 痛苦 (tòngkǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 受苦 (shòukǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), mučení [neuter] (Czech), marttyyrius (Finnish), martyre [masculine] (French), μαρτύριο (martýrio) [neuter] (Greek), męka [feminine] (Polish), мука (muka) [feminine] (Russian), martarachd [feminine] (Scottish Gaelic), martirio [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-martyrdom-en-noun-Q4SvFOvp Disambiguation of 'great suffering': 34 66
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: martyrdom video

Inflected forms

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          "text": "“Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]”",
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          "text": "The ceiling had been painted with the martyrdom of some saint. Who shall place a bound to human folly, when both the inflicter and the endurer of torture have deemed that pain is acceptable in the sight of God?",
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          "text": "“Regard not that, my brother,” answered Magdalen Græme; “the first successors of Saint Peter himself, were elected not in sunshine but in tempests—not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the subterranean vaults and dungeons of Heathen Rome—they were not gratulated with shouts and salvos of cannon-shot and of musquetry, and the display of artificial fire—no, my brother—but by the hoarse summons of Lictors and Prætors, who came to drag the Fathers of the Church to martyrdom.[…]”",
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          "text": "The ceiling had been painted with the martyrdom of some saint. Who shall place a bound to human folly, when both the inflicter and the endurer of torture have deemed that pain is acceptable in the sight of God?",
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.