ultimate sacrifice
English
Noun
ultimate sacrifice (plural ultimate sacrifices)
- Death for a cause or for one's country.
- 2000 Walter Prytulak, Paradise Regained: Prospects for a New Social Order in the Third Millennium
- However, the selfsame individual may be called to serve in armed services in times of war, and be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice by giving up his life
- 2002 Joe Stork, Erased in a Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli Civilians (page 16)
- The organizers sought to portray the bombers as "martyrs"—that is, as heroes prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice in defense of their people.
- 2000 Walter Prytulak, Paradise Regained: Prospects for a New Social Order in the Third Millennium
Synonyms
- supreme sacrifice