martyrsome

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From martyr +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

martyrsome (comparative more martyrsome, superlative most martyrsome)

  1. Pertaining to, or characteristic of a martyr
    • 1903, George Horton, In Argolis:
      These saints, by the way, do not always preserve after death the mild and martyrsome dispositions that characterized them during life.
    • 1903, Arthur Wellington Brayley, Arthur Wilson Tarbell, Joe Mitchell Chapple, National Magazine - Volume 19 - Page 648:
      It was surely a martyrsome situation.
    • 2014, M. Flores Jr., Collected Poems:
      Often through colors of trust & this very old spring in its martyrsome silence [...]
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