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

The fear of being no more loved by Josephine—the thought of having her inconstant—of seeing her … But I martyrize myself with anguish!

From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

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