distress vs martyrdom

distress

noun
  • Physical or emotional discomfort, suffering, or alarm, particularly of a more acute nature. 

  • A cause of such discomfort. 

  • The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction. 

  • Serious danger. 

  • A seizing of property without legal process to force payment of a debt. 

  • An aversive state of stress to which a person cannot fully adapt. 

verb
  • To treat a new object to give it an appearance of age. 

  • To retain someone’s property against the payment of a debt; to distrain. 

  • To cause strain or anxiety to someone. 

martyrdom

noun
  • Extreme suffering, affliction; torment; torture, especially without reason. 

  • The condition of a martyr; the death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause. 

How often have the words distress and martyrdom occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )