Word: martyrize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thrifty Elizabethan sentences about the country which "lieth aloof in the West Ocean, in proportion like an egg. . . ." As a seminarist at Douai in Flanders, Campion decided to accept the military discipline of the new and militant Society of Jesus. In 1580, he received what amounted to a martyr's orders: to return to England as a missionary. After Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth, her government had made it high treason, punishable with death by butchery, to act as a Roman Catholic priest in England...
...tons of coal, had forced the Government to seize them and thus negotiate with him-and had gotten little or nothing the operators had not offered him in the first place. But he had seldom quoted as fiercely and gloomily from Shakespeare, had seldom endured criticism with more martyr-like fortitude. When it was all over he stood up before the news cameras as though he heard a surf-like thunder of applause...
Promptly Major Hornbostel decided that he would go too. Said he: "I don't consider myself a martyr. I'd be unhappy without her and she'd be unhappy without me, and that's all there...
...Antigone's emotions that can stir him. In Sophocles' version, the plot at least has the psychology of a superstitious age and a religious people behind it-although even this has not kept Sophocles' Antigone from sometimes being accounted a young woman with a decided martyr complex...
...pedestrian crossing while the lights are in his favor. . . . His sense of discipline would be satisfied (for didn't the green light order him to go?) and his suppressed love for the tragic, his eternal longing for Valhalla, would be satisfied too (for did he not die a martyr for all public traffic ordinances, laws and regulations he loves best...