Crossword-Solution: MARTYR 6 letters, 99 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Martyr	n.	One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
Martyr	n.	Hence, one who sacrifices his life, his station, or what is of great value to him, for the sake of principle, or to sustain a cause.
Martyr	v. t.	To put to death for adhering to some belief, esp. Christianity; to sacrifice on account of faith or profession.
Martyr	v. t.	To persecute; to torment; to torture.

We have 99 clues for the answer “MARTYR”

Clue	Answers
Role played by a sufferer, maybe	1 answer
Savonarola, e.g.	1 answer
Saint, maybe	1 answer
Saint Stephen.	1 answer
Saint Stephen, for one	1 answer
Saint Stephen, e.g.	1 answer
Saint Stephen or Joan of Arc, e.g.	1 answer
Saint Sebastian, e.g.	1 answer
Saint Christopher, for one	1 answer
Saint Christopher, e.g.	1 answer
Saint Agnes, e.g.	1 answer
Sacrificial figure	1 answer
Savonarola, for one	1 answer
Religious sufferer	1 answer
Real bitter-ender	1 answer
Person dying for faith	1 answer
Person dying for a cause	1 answer
PERSON who dies for a cause	1 answer
One who suffers for a cause	1 answer
One who might have refused to recant	1 answer
One who gives all for a cause.	1 answer
One who dies for his belief	1 answer
One who died for a cause	1 answer
One posting a vague depressing Facebook status, say	1 answer
St. Stephen, notably	1 answer
E.g. Thomas More or Thomas Becket	1 answer
Person sacrificing life, on principle	1 answer
person who dies or suffers for his or her beliefs	1 answer
Willing sacrifice	1 answer
Victim to a cause	1 answer
Thomas Becket, e.g.	1 answer
Suffering sort	1 answer
Suffering believer	1 answer
Sufferer for a cause	1 answer
Sufferer of sorts	1 answer
Stephen or Peter, e.g.	1 answer
One making a huge deal out of a minor inconvenience, colloquially	1 answer
St. Stephen, in the Bible	1 answer
St. Stephen, for one	1 answer
St. Stephen, e.g.	1 answer
St. Sebastian, for one	1 answer
St. Sebastian was one	1 answer
St. Joan, for one	1 answer
Self-sacrificing type	1 answer
Self-sacrificing person.	1 answer
Self-sacrificial sort	1 answer
Self-sacrificer	1 answer
Self- sacrificing sort	1 answer
One feigning excessive illness in order to gain sympathy	1 answer
One who dies for a cause	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

REEAT

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with MARTYR (5)

She was patient—a martyr, indeed—but she forebore to pray for enemies, lest, in spite of her forgiving aspirations, the words of the blessing should stubbornly twist themselves into a curse.

The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992

His prediction proved correct, Brown's execution made him a martyr and at the end led to the victory for which he had yearned.

The Black Experience in America Norman Coombs 2008

They always spoke of Hardy as “the Martyr,” and every little while they moved through the principal street in procession—at midnight, black-robed, masked, to the measured tap of the solemn drum—on pilgrimage to the Martyr’s grave, where they went through with some majestic fooleries and swore vengeance upon his murderers.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

And thus _she_ would see him when she looked out upon the glad morning, and oh! would she drop one little tear upon his poor, lifeless form, would she heave one little sigh to see a bright young life so rudely blighted, so untimely cut down? The window went up, a maid-servant’s discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a deluge of water drenched the prone martyr’s remains! The strangling hero sprang up with a relieving snort.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Amid the disorder of such various ruin, it is not strange that a man of inconsiderable note, like Maule, should have trodden the martyr’s path to the hill of execution almost unremarked in the throng of his fellow sufferers.

The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with MARTYR (3)

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.

Oscar Wilde

I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.

Ingmar Bergman The Magic Lantern

My lack of faith in God is not a dilapidated house. It does not need to be razed to the ground or burned down to cinders. I refuse to be the wounded woman on a crossthat you crucify with your disapproval like nails; I will only be the woman who believes in thunderstormsthe same way lightning loves the tops of trees it strikesevery time it gets tired of being pent up in an unforgiving sky, the only difference is that I believe these are natural weather phenomenons, not God’s b…

Meggie Royer

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, The Atlantic, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 76 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).