Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The first martyr for a given cause or in a given place. Used especially of the first Christian martyr, Saint Stephen.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The first martyr; the first of any series of martyrs; the first who suffers or is sacrificed in any cause; specifically, Stephen, the earliest Christian martyr.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The first martyr; the first who suffers, or is sacrificed, in any cause; -- applied esp. to Stephen, the first Christian martyr.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of the first
Christian martyrs .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Στέφανος is known as the protomartyr of Christianity and venerated by the Roman Catholic,
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This revolutionary approach was announced by a woman painter, Anita Malfatti, “the protomartyr of modernism,” whose forward-looking paintings in her second exhibition, in 1917, were derided by Monteiro Lobato He claimed that she simply contributed her own “-ism” in her paintings where a horse and rider fall over: “I call this genre topple-ism”.
[Jose] Oswald de [Souza] Andrade greenintegerblog 2008
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Stephen, deacon and protomartyr, was stoned to death by the Sanhedrin because of a vision he testified to Acts 7:55-57:
scandal of particularity, scandal of flesh, scandal of manhood Fred 2007
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Stephen, deacon and protomartyr, was stoned to death by the Sanhedrin because of a vision he testified to Acts 7:55-57:
Archive 2007-10-01 Fred 2007
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Steven is the protomartyr for Christ, a deacon in the early Church, Saul St. Paul was there to witness the stoning.
On the feast of Stephen Terry Nelson 2006
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Steven is the protomartyr for Christ, a deacon in the early Church, Saul St. Paul was there to witness the stoning.
Archive 2006-12-24 Terry Nelson 2006
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Alban, protomartyr of Britain and patron of my parish church.
Archive 2005-06-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2005
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Alban, protomartyr of Britain and patron of my parish church.
Saint Alban's Day Fr Timothy Matkin 2005
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Sub hac capella ad aliquos gradus monstratur locus eiusdem cænationis, videlicèt cærnaculí magni, et in eo vas, aquarum, in quo Christus lauabat pedes Apostolorum: iuxta quod vas a Gamaliele, et alijs viris timoratis primus sepultus fuit protomartyr Stephanus.
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Sub hac capella ad aliquos gradus monstratur locus eiusdem c鎛ationis, videlic鑤 c鎟nacul� magni, et in eo vas, aquarum, in quo Christus lauabat pedes Apostolorum: iuxta quod vas a Gamaliele, et alijs viris timoratis primus sepultus fuit protomartyr Stephanus.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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