philomartyrdom

Updated: May 25, 2025

There was an organic defect in her character, which no doubt was plainly marked by its own bump in her cranium, the bump of philomartyrdom, it might properly be called. She had shipwrecked her own happiness in rejecting Godfrey Holmes; but it seemed to her to be the proper thing that a well-behaved young lady should shipwreck her own happiness.

Anthony Trollope - The Mistletoe Bough