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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Protomartyr  \Pro"to*mar`tyr\,  n.  [LL.,  fr  Gr  ?;  ?  first  +  ? 
  martyr:  cf  F.  protomartyr.  See  {Proto-},  and  {Martyr}.] 
  The  first  martyr;  the  first  who  suffers,  or  is  sacrificed,  in 
  any  cause  --  applied  esp.  to  Stephen,  the  first  Christian 
  martyr. 

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