protomartyress
English edit
Etymology edit
From protomartyr + -ess.
Noun edit
protomartyress (plural protomartyresses)
- A female protomartyr.
- 1892, Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama:
- It even Greek martyrologies the protomartyress, complained to the lord of the field , and but the book called The Acts of Paul and prayed him to cut it down .