martyrsome

martyrsome

English

Etymology

From martyr +‎ -some.

Adjective

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 [...]