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Anguish vs Martyrdom - What's the difference?

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Anguish is a related term of martyrdom.


As nouns the difference between anguish and martyrdom

is that anguish is extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress while martyrdom is 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.

As a verb anguish

is to suffer pain.

anguish

English

Noun

  • Extreme pain, either of body or mind; excruciating distress.
  • * Bible, Exodus vi. 9
  • But they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
  • * Latimer
  • Ye miserable people, you must go to God in anguishes , and make your prayer to him.
  • * 1889 , :
  • A terrible scream—a prolonged yell of horror and anguish —burst out of the silence of the moor. That frightful cry turned the blood to ice in my veins.

    Synonyms

    * agony, calvary, cross, pang, torture, torment * See also:

    Verb

    (es)
  • To suffer pain.
  • * (rfdate) 1900s , Kl. Knigge, Iceland Folk Song , traditional, Harmony: H. Ruland
  • We’re leaving these shores for our time has come, the days of our youth must now end. The hearts bitter anguish , it burns for the home that we’ll never see again.
  • To cause to suffer pain.
  • martyrdom

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • Affliction; torment; torture.
  • See also

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