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单词 martyr-maker
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martyr-maker
martyr-maker n. a person who creates martyrs; spec. (an epithet applied to) the martyrologist John Foxe (1517–87) (derogatory).
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1613 in M. C. Questier Newslett. Archpresbyterate G. Birkhead (1998) 228 Everye one particuler laye man though Iesuited never soe muche maye not bee a Martyrmaker for the sente of the gunpowder is soe stronge in many mens noses that theye will not woorshipp suche saincts.
1826 W. E. Andrews Exam. Fox's Cal. Protestant Saints 413 The martyr-maker appears to have been unacquainted with their christian names.
1889 Dict. National Biogr. XX. 130/1 He has been frequently confounded with John Foxe..the ‘martyr-maker’.
?1964 (title) The Communist martyr makers; the account of the struggle for free trade unionism in British Guiana in 1964.
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