Martyrdom

Noun

 * 1) The condition of a martyr; the death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.
 * 2) Affliction; torment; torture.

Adjectives for Martyrdom
heroic; disdainful; uplifting; voluntary; long-sought.

Thesaurus
agony, anguish, atrocious pain, bane, blood, bloodletting, bloodshed, braining, clawing, confinement, cruciation, crucifixion, dealing death, destruction, destruction of life, dismemberment, dispatch, estrapade, euthanasia, excruciation, execution, extermination, flow of blood, galleys, gore, hard labor, hell, hell upon earth, holocaust, horror, immolation, impalement, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, keelhauling, kill, killing, laceration, lancination, lapidation, martyrization, mercy killing, nightmare, passion, penal servitude, persecution, picketing, poisoning, purgatory, rack, railriding, ritual killing, ritual murder, rock pile, sacrifice, shooting, slaughter, slaying, stoning, strappado, taking of life, tar-and-feathering, the gantlet, torment, torture

Translations

 * German: Märtyrertod
 * Hungarian:, vértanúság


 * Scottish Gaelic: martarachd
 * Volapük: martür, matür


 * Scottish Gaelic: martarachd


 * Chinese: 殉教 (xùnjiào)
 * Czech:
 * French: martyre
 * German: Martyrium
 * Greek: μαρτύριο (martírio)


 * Japanese: 殉教 (じゅんきょう, junkyou)
 * Korean: 순교 (sun’gyo)
 * Spanish: martirio
 * Turkish: şehitlik, şehadet