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Noun- A history or account of one who voluntarily suffers death as the penalty of witnessing to and refusing to renounce his religion or a tenet, principle, or practice belonging to it.

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  • 'martyrology' and mass state liturgies that the LTTE has developed as a means of motivation, mobilization and legitimization of cause.
  • We don't need a martyrology to justify better print media.
  • Bishop Jacobson assigns more than fifty pages to this martyrology, with
  • His name occurs in the true martyrology of Bede, in the Roman and others.
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