ultimate sacrifice

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ultimate sacrifice (plural ultimate sacrifices)

  1. Death for a cause or for one's country.
    Synonyms: supreme sacrifice, last full measure
    Near-synonym: martyrdom
    • 2000, Walter Prytulak, Paradise Regained: Prospects for a New Social Order in the Third Millennium:
      However, the selfsame individual may be called to serve in armed services in times of war, and be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice by giving up his life
    • 2002, Joe Stork, Erased in a Moment: Suicide Bombing Attacks Against Israeli Civilians, page 16:
      The organizers sought to portray the bombers as "martyrs"—that is, as heroes prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice in defense of their people.
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