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a. Resembling or characteristic of a martyr.
Usage examples of "martyrlike".
He was the butt of all our jokes, and bore them with the most admirable and martyrlike patience.
She flushed, her beautiful eyes grew dim, red blotches came on her face, and it took on the unattractive martyrlike expression it so often wore, as she submitted herself to Mademoiselle Bourienne and Lise.
The difference between his former and his present self lay in this: hitherto, when he had forgotten what was before him, or paid no attention to what was said to him, he would wrinkle his brows with a martyrlike air, as if striving, but without success, to study something that was far away.
The Russians were impressed not only by his great height and stoutness, but by the strange, gloomily concentrated and martyrlike expression of his face and figure, and they stared at him because they could not make out to what rank of life he belonged.
Most of the time, favoring a martyrlike disposition which had been drilled into him by the Catholic catechism of his youth, he accepted the inconvenience without questioning the therapeutic value of perpetually wired teeth which made kissing somewhat reminiscent of the Spanish Inquisition.