单词 | pseudomartyr |
释义 | pseudomartyrn. A false or pretended martyr; a person falsely or erroneously called a martyr. ΚΠ 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1362/2 What trust is to be giuen to the words of such pseudomartyrs [as Campion]. 1610 Donne (title) Pseudo-martyr. 1631 P. Heylyn Hist. St. George ii. v. 232 It were a taske too weighty..to prove this Pseudo-Martyr to have beene Canonized a Saint. 1643 S. Butler Let. Mercurius Civicus to Mercurius Rusticus 6 If any man had been a Pseudomartyr for their cause, or had..irrevocably..ingaged himselfe to their party. 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 206 His Heart was found intire and untouch'd; which remarkable event, had it happen'd to any of the Pseudo-Martyrs of the Popish party, it would have caus'd his Canonization. 1844 Times 23 Sept. 6/5 The speculation..that the much-vaunted national banquet to the pseudo-martyrs would sadly disappoint its promoters and managers. 1870 Harper's Mag. May 927/1 It has never been easy to canonize the pseudo-martyr. 1968 Mod. Philol. 65 316/1 Harpsfield attacks the pseudomartyrs which Foxe had installed in his calendar of saints. 1992 Church Hist. 61 369 San Domingo of Saragossa, a thirteenth-century pseudo-martyr to a supposed Jewish ritual murder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1587 |
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