Martyrdom vs Anniversary - What's the difference?
martyrdom | anniversary |
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.
Of a significant event, a day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since the event occurred. Often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years that have elapsed since the event.
(loosely) A day subsequent in time to a given event by some (especially significant) factor other than a year (especially as prefixed by the amount of time in question).
* 1984 , ‘Never Mind the Tranquil Facade’, Time , 27 Feb 1984:
* 2002 , ‘Politics this Week’, The Economist , 14 Mar 2002:
* 2006 , DB Schrock, Soulmonger Dot Com , p. 28:
(more specifically) Such, where the event is a wedding.
As nouns the difference between martyrdom and anniversary
is that 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 while anniversary is of a significant event, a day that is an exact number of years (to the day) since the event occurred often preceded by an ordinal number indicating the number of years that have elapsed since the event.martyrdom
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(en noun)See also
*anniversary
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(wikipedia anniversary)Noun
(anniversaries)- Today is the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war.
- The occasion was the six-month anniversary of the Aug. 8 coup that brought General Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores to power.
- In a thinly veiled threat to Saddam Hussein, President George Bush marked the six-month anniversary of September 11th by reiterating America's commitment to prevent rogue countries obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
- Jonathon proposed to his mom on their three-month anniversary of meeting and married her on their fourth.
- We are celebrating our tenth anniversary today.
