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单词 pseudomartyr
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pseudomartyrn.

Brit. /ˌs(j)uːdəʊˈmɑːtə/, U.S. /ˌsudoʊˈmɑrdər/
Forms: see pseudo- comb. form and martyr n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: pseudo- comb. form, martyr n.
Etymology: < pseudo- comb. form + martyr n., after post-classical Latin pseudomartyr false martyr (4th cent.). Compare ancient Greek ψευδομάρτυς false witness.
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).
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