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Definition of "martyry" []

  • A shrine in honor of a (usually religious, notably Christian) martyr, possibly at his grave (noun)

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Use "martyry" in a sentence
  • "So howzabout you not get quite so martyry on all of us?"
  • "Bithynia, in the martyry of the holy and victorious martyr Euphemia, has decreed as follows:"
  • "Well, in those days of grotesque and horrible panic, when one was almost afraid to speak above a whisper, I was walking to the martyry of St. Babylas with my friend Theodore, now"