martyrize

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But Senator Watson was too good a tactician to martyrize Senator Johnson and friends with this ex-treme parliamentary measure.

From Time Magazine Archive

South African authorities had no desire to martyrize anybody with his name.

From Time Magazine Archive

They martyrize themselves by sacrificing everything; they spoil them and convert them into ungrateful lovers.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell

I martyrize her, I know I do," he said to Isaacson; "but I don't believe it's my fault.

From Bella Donna A Novel by Hichens, Robert Smythe

She felt too sore and too sick for the aid that comes veiled with inscrutable symbolism, and seems to martyrize when it seeks to save.

From Mrs. Thompson A Novel by Maxwell, W. B. (William Babington)