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  • verb Present participle of martyr.

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Examples

  • I don't consider it to be "martyring" at all; I consider it being aware of how societal and cultural influences shape who I am supposed to be attracted to vs. who I actually enjoy spending time with.

    Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing 2009

  • The "martyring," boomerang that it had proved, was over.

    The Madigans Miriam Michelson 1906

  • To him "martyring" meant some queer rite whose main and malicious purpose it was to keep Split indoors of an evening when the high mountain twilight was going to be long, long; and when the moon that followed it would be so brilliant that one might read by its light -- if he weren't too wise, and too fond of hide-and-seek -- out in the silver-flooded streets made vocal by childish cries.

    The Madigans Miriam Michelson 1906

  • The word "martyring" has a powerful meaning in Islam.

    Bill Totten's Weblog 2008

  • Yet now, resolutely, as only a man can do who is capable of martyring himself for the cause of science, he proceeded to violate all the fineness and delicacy of his nature by making love to the unthinkably disgusting bushwoman.

    THE RED ONE 2010

  • We thought that the Indonesian authorities, wary of martyring my father, would grant him an early release.

    Jakarta's Dismal Record in Papua Audryne Karma 2011

  • On the other hand, the blockade enforcers have the right to seize by force (including sinking, should the ship prove recalcitrant — in practice most captains had the decency and valor to surrender to a militarily superior force instead of martyring themselves) any ship violating the blockade.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Pro-Palestinian “Peace Activists” 2010

  • The Shahadat martyring of Imam Hussein turned two critical chapters in Islam.

    Mike Ghouse: The Significance Of Muharram And Centrality Of Imam Hussain Mike Ghouse 2011

  • I don't want someone martyring themselves by dating me.

    Ask Professor Foxy: Does My Size and Not Flirting Keep Me Alone? - Feministing 2009

  • Iran has Rafsanjani, Khatami, Mousavi and Karoubi, who brought down the Shah with lengthy, building broadbased mourning demonstrations that fed off the continued martyring of their demonstrators.

    Iran Election Live-Blogging (Friday June 19) The Huffington Post News Team 2009

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