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English
Etymology
From protomartyr + -ess.
Noun
protomartyress (plural not attested)
- 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 .