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

Very well, then! she would go to Brudenstein; she would not martyrize herself by being with a man on crutches!

From Halcyone by Glyn, Elinor

Ah! how easy it is to martyrize one's self by some fatal decision made grandly in the exultation of a supreme moment!

From Sacred and Profane Love by Bennett, Arnold

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