Crossword-Solution: MARTYRED
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Martyred | imp. & p. p. | of Martyr |
We have 8 clues for the answer “MARTYRED”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Having suffered for one's beliefs | 1 answer |
| Died for a cause | 1 answer |
| Like many a saint | 1 answer |
| Like many saints | 1 answer |
| Made to pay the price | 1 answer |
| Put to death for adhering to a belief | 1 answer |
| Sacrificed for a cause | 1 answer |
| Like Joan of Arc | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ATREE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MARTYRED (5)
Her father as it proved, had martyred his poor child to an inordinate desire for measuring his land by miles instead of acres.
Calvary Friendless and faint, with martyred steps and slow, Faint for the flesh, but for the spirit free, Stung by the mob that came to see the show, The Master toiled along to Calvary; We gibed him, as he went, with houndish glee, Till his dimmed eyes for us did overflow; We cursed his vengeless hands thrice wretchedly, -- And this was nineteen hundred years ago.
From that world-wide theatre of nodding heads and buzzing whisperers, in which she now beheld herself unpitiably martyred, one door stood open.
Could he really be dying? She bathed him, kissed him, forgot all things but the fact that lying there before her was he who had loved her more than the mere lover would have loved; had martyred himself for her comfort, cared more for her self-respect than she had thought of caring.
How, or why, or when, was this lymphatic bagman martyred? We concluded at once it was on some religious question, and brushed up our memories of the Inquisition, which were principally drawn from Poe’s horrid story, and the sermon in _Tristram Shandy_, I believe.
Quotes with MARTYRED (3)
I have been astonished that men could die martyrsfor their religion--I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religionand I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.
He caught a glimpse of that extraordinary faculty in man, that strange, altruistic, rare, and obstinate decency which will make writers or scientists maintain their truths at the risk of death. Eppur si muove, Galileo was to say; it moves all the same. They were to be in a position to burn him if he would go on with it, with his preposterous nonsense about the earth moving round the sun, but he was to continue with the sublime assertion because there was something which he va…
Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But never will be sung to us again, Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (1975–2015).