martyr's
One who dies
Martyr's is the possessive form of martyr—one who suffers or dies for a belief, cause, or faith.
A martyr's death is one endured rather than renounced.
A martyr's complex describes someone who seeks sympathy through exaggerated suffering.
She wore her martyr's crown with pride.
Sacred devotional place
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
- saintCanonized holy person
- venerationProfound admiring respect
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
feast day · canonization · intercession · blessed · beatification · pilgrimage · devotion · holy
Seeking fundamental systemic change
- activistVigorous cause champion
- freedom fighterArmed rebel against tyranny
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- oppressionUnjust exercise of power
execution · memorial · commemoration · anniversary · movement · struggle · injustice · protest
Cessation of life
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
- causeWhat produces an effect
- ultimate priceSacrificing one's life
- givingTransferring to another
selflessness · dedication · conviction · principle · suffering · persecution · testimony · witness
Having many interconnected parts
- syndromeLinked symptoms forming pattern
- self-pityExaggerated focus on own suffering
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
complaining · blame · attention · sympathy · manipulation · drama · woe · grievance
shrine
Sacred devotional place
- relicsPreserved items from antiquity
- saintCanonized holy person
- venerationProfound admiring respect
tomb · feast day · canonization · intercession · blessed · beatification · pilgrimage · devotion · holy · sacred
revolutionary
Seeking fundamental systemic change
- activistVigorous cause champion
- freedom fighterArmed rebel against tyranny
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
oppression · execution · memorial · commemoration · anniversary · movement · struggle · injustice · protest · dissident
death
Cessation of life
- bloodBody's oxygen carrier
- causeWhat produces an effect
- ultimate priceSacrificing one's life
giving · selflessness · dedication · conviction · principle · suffering · persecution · testimony · witness · memorial
complex
Having many interconnected parts
- syndromeLinked symptoms forming pattern
- self-pityExaggerated focus on own suffering
- persecutionSystematic mistreatment of groups
suffering · complaining · blame · attention · sympathy · manipulation · drama · woe · grievance · resentment
martyr'soppressor's
Belonging to one who dominates
tormentor's · executioner's · tyrant's · inquisitor's · torturer's
- martyr complexSelf-perception as perpetual sufferer
- Christian martyrBeliever killed for faith
- political martyrOne slain for ideology
- Catholic martyrOne killed for Catholicism
- martyr's shrinePlace honoring religious dead
- Christian martyrdomDeath for religious faith