Martyr
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One who chooses to suffer death rather than renounce religious principles.
One who makes great sacrifices or suffers much in order to further a belief, cause, or principle.A great show of suffering in order to arouse sympathy.
To inflict great pain on. -
A martyr is a person who dies fighting for what they believe in. A martyr can either kill themselves or be killed.
In the 19th Century, a woman in England named Emily Davison (A member of the suffragette party) becamame a matryr after killing herself by jumping infront of horses at the Epson Derby.
Martyrs gain a lot of sympathy by the public for preforming such an act which is one of the main contributing factors as to why they do it in the first place. -
Most of these definitions are wrong or half right, there are two types of Martyrs:
1.) One who puts themselves in harms way so that someone else doesnt have to. One who would die fighting for a cause.
2.) An [attention whore] who puts themselves in harms way and/or complains about it expecting others to feel thankful or sorry for them. For [Glory].
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VERB: The act of seeking sympathy and attention by exaggerating pain on your social media pages.
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-One who purposefully puts himself in harms way
-One who deliberately puts himself in situations to force sympathy and pity out of those around him.
-One who makes his situation sound worse than it ever really will be in order to seek attention
Attention seeker.
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Someone who purposely takes on extra duties or unpleasant activity for the sake of attention and being able to complain about it.
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Fomerly known as your [Wingman] or [Taking one for the team]. A guy that sacrifices himself by removing the [we gotta go girl] or the [ugly chick] from the gaggle of women that you are attempting to take home. Since women know what [Wingman] means, this is the deceptive term to get their guard down.
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A person who seeks out and/or nurtures conflict within their life.
A person who creates drama in their life where there was none before.
Often describes an attention whore or a pity whore, who find pleasure in lording their pain over others and garnering support because of it. A martyr seeks out and revels in personal conflict so as to have an excuse to be angry.
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ONe who dies for the cause of the hood.
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1- Person who suffers or dies for a belief, idea or cause.
2-([Figuratively]) Person who suffers mistreatment
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